Elks Lodge #2276 - Mountain Home, ID - March 25, 2016

After three nights at the Elks lodge in Provo, UT, we had a day that looked like it would be a good travel day. The temps were up, no wind or snow. It was a good place to kill some time. There is a lot of shopping centers around us. We did go out to dinner one night at the Black Bear Diner.

This is what it looked like yesterday morning.

Snow on our Jeep and in the mountains all around us. Beautiful, but we would be travelling through some much higher mountains and we're happy to take advantage of the 50 Amp here and wait it out.

Thursday, the 24th, we took off. These mountains were pretty, but time to leave.

The traffic through the Salt Lake City area wasn't bad at all.

We gassed up at a Flying J just north of Ogden for $1.85 a gallon. And I was happy to discover that I had gotten 7.8 miles per gallon on this last tank full.


As we got close to Idaho, the high snow covered mountains became much lower. But the dang wind started up. Our RV engine was reving high as we tried to keep our speed between 60-65 mph. And it was a head wind ... arggg!

Into Idaho we went.

Our plans were to take Exit 173 at Twin Falls and head to the Rock Creek County Park. As we were getting close to our Exit, fighting the dang wind, a big storm front came upon us.

I got to test how fast my windshield wipers would work.

The front passed pretty quickly and we found our way through the streets of Twin Falls to Rock Creek as the rain was stopping. Rats! The park doesn't open till April 1st. Great! I didn't find that info on the net.

Well, at least the rain had stopped. Now we can get out and unhook the Jeep so we can get turned around. We were right in front of the entrance with the closed gate.

After unhooking and hooking back up, we turned to plan B. We will continue west to the Elks lodge in Mountain Home, ID.

As we were leaving Twin Falls, we could see the Snake River. It would be fun to explore this area further ... later.

Now Mountain Home was an additional 65 miles down the Interstate. That makes for a longer than normal day, 360 miles.

We made it to the Elks in Mountain Home.

They have 8 RV spots with 50 Amp and water. The electrical peds are new and there is a dump station here as well. We are the only RV here. They say 'Donations Welcome' So we gave them 20 bucks for two nights. That seems the 'going' rate.

Saturday looks like a better weather travel day. Next stop, the Wild Horse Casino in Pendelton, OR.