Welcome to Idaho
We really arrived 5 days ago but we been searchin for a camp spot with internet service ever since, we were too close to the “big city” of Boise, so public land is very limited.
We spent 2 days touring Gem, Payette and Canyon counties in the Boise Valley. Along with the valley across the Snake River in Oregon, they call this “Onion Country, USA!” We saw mile after mile of prairie turned into onion farms, most people seem to keep a cow or 5 in their yard too, maybe for the liver?
We came into Idaho on US Hwy 20 hoping to stop and take a “Welcome to Idaho” picture. It seems that all the welcome centers are on the Interstates and the State Highways only have a small sign, usually on a bridge with no place to stop!
Turning South we drove through some beautiful farm country starting with Fruitland and heading on down to Parma. Parma has an awesome old Library. The Patricia Romanko Public Library was converted from The First National Bank.
After Parma we headed East towards Emmett, on Market Rd. You sure get to see how people live and how they’re farming when you get off the main highway and just drive through the country side.
Looks like we gotta head north to find some trees . . .
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i commented under some of the pics. beautiful country, but that is the one thing i dont like about the big wide plains: NO TREES! except along waterways.
I know what you mean about the trees, I have always pictured Idaho ALL trees, we are finding mostly plains.
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randy, can you delete my above comment that says, “Your comments”? i dont know how that happened. i was writing a comment, then all of a sudden everything flashed and the above was the result. weird.
then i wrote out the same long comment about my journey thru Nat Parks and driving thru Idaho, and how i saw a drive-in movie theater near the eastern border on Hwy 20 somewhere between West Yellowstone and Idaho Falls. the theater was called, “Spud Drive-In.” there was a giant potato on the back of an old flatbed truck. i guess we were in Potato Country, since Idaho is known for it’s potatoes. after a big long story i went to “Post Comment” but my computer had frozen and i had lost GrammaLei, so it never posted. so here is a shorter version of it.
We saw a very little drive in somewhere last week in some little town, now I know not where. I know what you mean about computers freezing and everything disappearing, me and Lei alotta times when writing long things for FB, write them on a “notepad” the copy paste them.
the drive-in i mentioned is near the eastern border within view of the Grand Tetons. G. T. Nat Pk is in Wyoming and the Mt.s are right on the ID/WY border, so they are visible in ID also, with a monument on Hwy 20.
do you have a widget that lets you know when a comment is made under your photos? i asked a couple questions under some of them.
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We are trying to remember to look for comments, because we love getting them.
Are you wishing “you” had a widget, so you knew when we answer?
is there a way, like maybe notified by email, that i may know when you comment about my comment from pics? or anybody comments?
Sounds good, I will get to work on that, I too noticed that the new picture gallery wasn’t doing it, and wondered about all posts.
i DO get emails when you post something new and new comments by you, so thats cool.