Idaho Falls, Idaho

When we got to Idaho Falls we spent the first night at Walmart.  Jim as usual was busy checking out the surrounding area with the binoculars when he noticed what looked like an interesting sculpture so after dinner we took a walk to check it out.  The sculpture sets in the middle of a roundabout.  The whole area was kind of cool with the neat office buildings and the fancy roundabout.

 

 

 

 

  When we got back to the MH we visited with a very nice couple from Saskatchewan. They spend most summers here in the states and were currently on their way to Jackson Hole. They are like us in that they do most of their camping in free spots although it sounded like they do a lot of Walmart parking where we try to find free camping in more out the way areas. We stayed at Walmart that first night then took the jeep the next morning and located and planned our route to the Idaho Falls South Tourist park, where we planned to stay for a couple of days.

 

 

It was a pretty park on the edge of the Snake River.  As I was getting parked I happened to notice a drive in movie screen right smack in front of us.

 

Later that night the movie came on and we had a perfect view.  Took us a while to find the radio station broadcasting the sound, but Jim did eventually find it so we watched two movies.

I have to say that park was the strangest place we have stayed.  The web site where I found out about the park said there was a fair amount of late night teenage traffic. I’m not sure which part of the park they had stayed at, but the traffic we saw was not teenagers.  I think it may have been drug traffic? We saw a couple of cars multiple times parking at the edge of the park and pretty soon another car would pull up, they would both get in one car or the other and pretty quickly they would get back in their own cars and drive away. One car in particular was there at least a dozen times per day.  Even with that going on we felt safe staying there. There were lots of other people and the area was well lit.