We are traveling the U.S. by pinching pennies. We rarely stay in RV Parks and do not eat in fancy resturaunts but the sites we see make the penny pinching worth it.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Base Jumpers at Twin Falls Bridge
We stopped off at Twin Falls for a few hours, wandered around town and spent some time watching some base jumpers. I have decided they have to be a little crazy.
Jumper standing on the edge of the bridge
Twin Falls Bridge
Jim held the camera sideways, not realizing there would be no way to turn it straight. If you watch carefully you can see the jumper on his trip down.
We spent a week on the Idaho, Nevada border at a place called Rabbit Springs. Jim read on the internet that it had great rock hunting for Apache tears, and thunder eggs. We found plenty of both. I think Jim filled an entire kitty litter bucket with thunder eggs. Not sure what he plans for all of them.
The first day there I had Jim put out the awning as we had no shade and it was pretty hot. About three hours after opening it there was a huge stray wind that blew through the area and before either of us could even get to the door the wind caught the awning, flipped it up and bent one the support polls. UGH!! One section of the support slides inside another so with the one section bent it was impossible to close the awning. After attempting to straighten the section of poll Jim ended up having to cut the inside section in half so we could get the darn awning closed up.
Besides looking for rocks we spent some time running around the country side in the jeep. One day we drove over to a Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir which according to the map is huge. Well it is huge, but there was not a drop of water in site. We did have a good time driving for miles along the lake bed and checking out the rock cliffs that surround the nonexistent lake.
The first day there I had Jim put out the awning as we had no shade and it was pretty hot. About three hours after opening it there was a huge stray wind that blew through the area and before either of us could even get to the door the wind caught the awning, flipped it up and bent one the support polls. UGH!! One section of the support slides inside another so with the one section bent it was impossible to close the awning. After attempting to straighten the section of poll Jim ended up having to cut the inside section in half so we could get the darn awning closed up.
Besides looking for rocks we spent some time running around the country side in the jeep. One day we drove over to a Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir which according to the map is huge. Well it is huge, but there was not a drop of water in site. We did have a good time driving for miles along the lake bed and checking out the rock cliffs that surround the nonexistent lake.
View of cliff from the lake bed
While driving across the lake bed we even ran into a herd of cattle around the corner you can see in front of us.
We pried up some layers of this rock hoping to find some fossils, but no such luck.
This is a section that had apparently fell from higher up the cliff.
American Falls, Idaho- I am absolutely going to buy a canoe
We spent a week parked at the American Falls Dam and I was wishing again that we had, had the foresight to invest in some kind of boat. It's the pits to be parked at the water and spend time watching everyone else play around in their boats.
We did a lot of driving around in the jeep on the back roads. We were mostly looking if there was anyplace better to park. We found a couple of really nice sites, but there is no way we could have gotten the MH in to them. Both places where on the banks of the Snake River, with lots of shade trees.
The reservoir was only at 19% capacity and looked as if it had been that way for quite some time. We spent one day across the reservoir from where we were parked checking out the old town site location. In the 1920s they built the dam and had to move the entire town. With the water so low we were able to see the foundation's of all the buildings they had moved. I think we read at the visitor center that they had to move somewhere close to fifty buildings. Here is a picture of the grain silo that was left standing in place. Probably because it is 106 feet high and 40 feet under ground.
Most days the wind would pick up in the afternoons and we would end the day with gray skies from all the smoke from the forest fires. This trip has really made us aware of just how many forest fires there are during the summer months. Although I did hear on the news that this year was particularly bad. I can't think of even one state we have been to that there hasn't been forest fires.
We did a lot of driving around in the jeep on the back roads. We were mostly looking if there was anyplace better to park. We found a couple of really nice sites, but there is no way we could have gotten the MH in to them. Both places where on the banks of the Snake River, with lots of shade trees.
The reservoir was only at 19% capacity and looked as if it had been that way for quite some time. We spent one day across the reservoir from where we were parked checking out the old town site location. In the 1920s they built the dam and had to move the entire town. With the water so low we were able to see the foundation's of all the buildings they had moved. I think we read at the visitor center that they had to move somewhere close to fifty buildings. Here is a picture of the grain silo that was left standing in place. Probably because it is 106 feet high and 40 feet under ground.
If you look closely you can see the lighter section at the bottom of the silo, that is usually under water.
Most days the wind would pick up in the afternoons and we would end the day with gray skies from all the smoke from the forest fires. This trip has really made us aware of just how many forest fires there are during the summer months. Although I did hear on the news that this year was particularly bad. I can't think of even one state we have been to that there hasn't been forest fires.
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