SUNDAY, October 12
Lazy Day in Bozeman!
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| FPC Bozeman |
Well, this won’t take long because we didn’t
do much today! We did get up and attend
worship with the First Presbyterian Church of Bozeman – it was under 2 miles
away right in the heart of downtown. At
least 4 others churches were within 2 blocks!
This was one of the old brick classic 1900 churches – most of the Sunday
School rooms and the fellowship hall were all downstairs. Beautiful big stained glass gothic windows on
either side in shades of green and gold.
Not really ‘pictures’ in the windows, just pretty. The front of the church was covered with a
massive set of pipes for the organ. Off
to one side was a rustic style cross.
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| Pipe organ in front of sanctuary |
And music! We had a violinist (middle school age?) play
the prelude, a full choir sing with the organ, a song leader for hymns, and a
saxophone solo during the Offering. A
nice service. We went downstairs for
fellowship and talked with a few people.
Not OVERLY friendly, but we did have a couple people come up and
introduce themselves.
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| Rustic Cross |
We both picked up some new books in
the office on their exchange shelves. I
grabbed another Danielle Steele plus another one.
We made soup for an early dinner and
snacked for supper. I spent the rest of
the day working on pictures, plus talking on the phone! We both talked to Moms and then Luke and then
Jed! (The dissertation has been
submitted! Hallelujah!)
I sent an email to Dave with Habitat
also.
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| During a lull in the storms I got a picture of the trailer at Sunrise CG with all the pretty trees. |
Monday, October 13
Hikes in Hyalite Canyon
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| Bridger Mts. north of Bozeman, enroute to Belgrade |
It is amazing the difference DAMP
makes in how warm you feel. The temps
haven’t been that low the last few days, but it sure feels colder with all the
rain. Holed up in the trailer all
morning posting pictures to the blog, writing emails, etc. Since we have today to explore, Rick went up
to the office and picked up the book we saw there on Day Hikes in the Bozeman
area. We had an email from Dave this
morning saying he was out of town until this evening and the construction guy
had a medical appointment Tuesday, so we probably won’t start work until
Wednesday now! They are only going to
get four days out of us! Bummer.
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| Habitat house in Belgrade....ready for work! |
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| You can just see the tips of the mts from the top floor of the house! |
Then we head to the mountains! Rick found Hyalite Canyon on the south side
of Bozeman in the hiking guide. The
canyon road enters the Gallatin National Forest, winding about 11 miles up the
creek through yellow cottonwoods and green pines. We arrive at Hyalite Reservoir, the water
supply for Bozeman. We wind along one
side of the lake, and then another 2 miles to a trailhead for Hyalite Creek
Trail and Grotto Falls.
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| Fall colors along canyon road |
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| Hyalite Reservoir and peaks |
There is snow in these hills! It is damp and cool in the forest with a
definite feel of fall and winter in the air.
The road wasn’t any problem, but there is snow in places on the
trail. This trail is marked as
Handicapped Accessible (in better weather!), so it is wide and gradual.
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| Looking up Hyalite Creek toward peaks. |
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| There's snow up here! |
We drive back the 2 miles and then
take the other fork in the road to climb 1 mile up to the trailhead for
Palisades Falls. This is also a handicap
trail and it is fully paved the entire way.
I would not particularly want to push or power a wheelchair up the steep
incline, however!
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| Grotto Falls and caves |
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| In front of Palisades Falls |
Palisades Falls drops off the edge
of a high basalt cliff and then fans out at the bottom as the water hits rocky
debris. Between the yellow orange color
of the basalt rock and the golds of several trees near the base, it is quite
pretty. Much higher than Grotto Falls at
80’.
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| Trail to Palisades Falls |
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| Palisades Falls |
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| Gallatin Peaks of Hyalite valley |
TUESDAY, October 14
Bridger Mountain
Explorations
Whoa. I slept in past 7am this morning! I awoke earlier to the sound of the train
whistle blowing (the tracks are just across the road – the campground is sandwiched
between the interstate and the railroad tracks!) but must have rolled over and
gone back to sleep. But that’s ok, we
don’t have a huge itinerary for today!
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| Autumn colors as we head out of town. |
Today is forecast for high 60’s to
70 – the sun is somewhat filtered with a high haze, but overall, it is warmish
and sunny. The drive into Bridger Canyon
is beautiful with all the cottonwood trees still glowing in yellows and
golds. We pass the trailhead up to the M
on the side of Baldy Mt. which is also the beginning of the Bridger Foothills
Scenic Trail (24 miles long).
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| Bridger Mountain range |
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| Bridger Bowl ski area |
Back on up the road – our goal is
Fairy Lake, nestled under the peaks of Sacagawea and Hardrabble (both over
9500’). The lake is 6 miles up a dirt
road and we didn’t really expect to be able to get all the way before snow
stopped up. As it was, we COULD have
driven the whole way, but the road was deteriorating around the 4 mile marker,
so we parked and hiked the rest of the way up to the lake. The terrain reminds me very much of the
Elkhorns – vegetation, etc. We passed
Elk Lake, a small greenish pool, before reaching the trailhead and Fairy Lake
Campground. There were more cars and
traffic on the road than I expected!
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| Sacagawea Peak |
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| Cottonwood Colors |
Fairy Lake is smaller than Anthony,
but like our local gem it is surrounded by at least 4 peaks. We walked around the lake about halfway in
the hopes of getting some good pictures with the peaks behind. Mostly I was fighting the sun and overcast
skies in that attempt! We stopped to
talk to another couple (a gal and her brother in law) who were out exploring
also. That conversation, with a Michelle
from Phoenix and Ted from Bozeman, lasted over a half hour! Michelle has a brother in law who lives part
of the year in Bandon with his glass artist wife! They wanted to know all about Habitat work
also.
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| Panorama as we near Fairy Lake |
We hiked back down to the truck –
the downhill always goes faster than the uphill! A beautiful return drive back down the valley
and we get back to the campground around 3:15.
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| Fairy Lake and surrounding peaks |
Time to empty out the trunk of the
truck and prepare to do some work! We clean
out our tools and get our belts and boots and gear ready to go!
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| Last view of Fairy Lake |
Dinner at Johnny Carino’s Italian
restaurant near exit 305 off the interstate.
We arrived early and were seated.
At 6 I went out to check and make sure Dave wasn’t waiting for us out front. He and his wife Diane were waiting in a side
room! I introduced myself and was glad I
had gotten up to check!
We had a wonderful dinner – Dave’s
treat – as he filled in background on the Gallatin Valley affiliate. Dave has been here about 4 years now with a
background in organization dynamics, etc.
Perfect for an executive director.
It was an enlightening conversation and we were able to share some of
our experiences in various affiliates as well.
Dave knows Scott and Nancy Hoag, as well as Dave and Roxanne
Draves. Both live or visit Bozeman a lot
and we have worked with them in Columbia Falls.
Chance of rain tonight, but after
that the weather should be good the rest of the week!
G’night!
WEDNESDAY, October
15
Belgrade Habitat
Build – Day 1
We were up and roaring to go this
morning. But a dark and ominous morning
it was! Not overly COLD…just cool and
thick clouds. Dark! We headed up to arrive in Belgrade shortly
after 8am, finding other local volunteers already gathering. Dave had indicated they didn’t come until
after 8:30 or so! We met Mark and got
our paperwork finished.
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| Garage area regular volunteers tackled. |
The main corps of volunteers will be
working to frame in the garage. That
includes two younger guys, probably from MSU, an older couple, and a couple
other men. Volunteer Al has been working
on finishing the incomplete home on the other side of the vacant lot – the
family has already moved in, but the home isn’t done on the outside. Rick and I spent the day with Al.
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| We learned on this small section of gable. |
What is missing is the gable siding
on all the ends of the house, plus the metal soffit work under those
gables. The siding is ‘decorative’ but
time intensive. I don’t think they will
use it again. The main siding is
horizontal cement board, but the upper gables are vertical shake panels. Cement that all have to be predrilled prior
to installation and then screwed into the wall.
When you trim them for the roof slant, you end up with little pieces
that have to be glued back on in place.
I stayed ‘down’ all day, letting Rick and Al do all the ladder work, and
I drilled holes, measured, etc. I didn’t
do those cuts because I didn’t like the cordless saw we were using!
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| Building the scaffolding to tackle the soffit work on this side. |
After lunch we went to work on the
soffits at the tall end of the house, which necessitated the installation of
scaffolding. This affiliate doesn’t have
much to work with – just 4 horizontal planks and 8 sets of X pieces – you can’t
go very high and don’t have much to walk on!
But we got up enough for Rick to work the scaffolding and Al for the
most part an extension ladder on each end.
He was much happier on the ladder than the scaffolding! We set up the ‘jig’ to cut the soffit
panels and I did most of that while they installed. I had to find protective eyeware since I was
cutting metal….cut pink glasses to match the purple ear plugs Al found for
me! I should have had my pink hard hat
on! But the 3:30 quitting time, we had
all but one small piece of the soffit installed. Ready for cement shakes tomorrow!
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| Crew of workers during lunch break. |
Lunch was provided by Dave’s wife,
Diane. They brought in a crock of sloppy jo meat, buns, and chips. It was good!
Mark had also made a donut run earlier for break! We met the new volunteer coordinator, Katie,
who is a Bozeman native but new to this job.
She’ll have plenty of connections to pursue!
It got windy by the end of the
day. A small storm front is coming in
from the west! Shortly after dinner time
the wind REALLY hit and a few drops of rain in the evening. Tomorrow is forecast for much cooler than
today’s high of 70, but it will be dry by then!
THURSDAY, October 16
Belgrade Habitat
Build Day 2
Whoa! Lots of noisy trains last night AND our
neighbor revved up his truck and trailer at 5:45am this morning to pull
out. Ugh. But…we got to sleep in because Mark doesn’t
really want to see us until 9am today!
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| Rick gets started on the gable shakes |
We got to the site right around 9am
to find Mark scrambling to stack all the metal soffit sheets back up. I had put a bunch of cementboard on top of
them, but they were on sawhorses and the wind came up under them and blew them
all over. Only one is really bent and
damaged somewhat.
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| Sam puts in a few screws |
Our job today was to put up the
vertical shake panels on the north gable of the house. All ladder and scaffolding work. Mark was in and out, procuring supplies,
making calls, etc. He really was
trusting Rick and I to do the job and to do it right. But he admitted he had never installed this
kind of material before. His expertise
is more in high-end residential construction (his son is beginning work on a
vacation home for Justin Timberlake….that kind of high-end!) We were getting the first level of material
up and figuring things out, when a mom and her son, Pam and Sam, arrived around
11:30 to help out for three hours. Sam
is a high school junior and wanting to do a little community volunteer work and
he picked Habitat. His schedule makes
volunteering tough, but conferences are going on and students are out of school
today and tomorrow. We decided at 16,
Sam could be on the scaffolding, and he went up to help Rick, which freed me to
stay down and cut the boards. Pam helped
out with some clean-up and drilling holes!
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| Rick and Sam put down another layer |
We broke for lunch and drove over to
the Re-Store, where a pot of hearty beef soup was cooking and chicken or tuna
salad sandwiches. It was a quick feed,
but fun to see the Restore! And we saw Dave again and met Chris, one of
the Habitat board members. Chris also
said he was a partner family, having received a home himself for his family. He was very appreciative of the work we do,
not just as a board member but as a homeowner.
It was pretty touching.
We ‘hauled’ after lunch, taking
advantage of having Sam available and he and Rick put up as many of the full
boards as possible. Pam and I were busy
drilling holes! The last half hour we
have to start the fussy work of the roof slant ends which slowed things
down! She and Sam were fun to work with
and a bonus for a day in which we thought we would be on our own.
Mark stayed and talked with us for
awhile, but he left shortly after Pam and Sam, with instructions for us to work
as long as we wanted and then put the tools away and lock everything up!
With Sam gone, I had to start
climbing up to the top of the scaffolding to help hold the panels level as Rick
screwed them in. On my second trip up,
we had just finished getting a board up, when we heard a cry from the
street. We looked down and saw a lady
sprawled on the sidewalk, dog running lose, and a walker nearby. Rick bolted down the scaffolding, and I
followed. She was calling for help! Rick helped her up, I grabbed the dog before
he bolted, and we were able to get her into her walker which had a seat. Her home was just down the street and her
daughter was there she said. I went ahead
with the dog and knocked on the door to get the daughter while Rick slowly
wheeled her back down the sidewalk. She
thought she had hurt her shoulder. We
talked briefly with the daughter and delivered ‘mom’ into her hands. But…..as Rick and I were leaving an hour and
half later, we saw an ambulance and fire truck down at her house. We went down, but couldn’t make contact with
the family. I am worried she went into
shock or had heart problems, etc. They
wouldn’t have needed an ambulance to take her in to get the shoulder
checked. We will walk down tomorrow to
check on her.
We worked longer than we should
have. The last board was a struggle and
I confess I shouldn’t have wanted to get it up because it didn’t really get us
any more finished than we would have been.
My bad. We stopped briefly at
Weight Watchers enroute home (thank you Pam and Sam for helping me find the
location on the map!) and then a quick trip to Murdoch’s to see about a new
tool belt for Rick. No luck.
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| Our accomplishment for the day....we'll finish the detail stuff on the left side in the morning |
Long day. Back to trailer, shower, dinner, and Rick
watched football game! Early to bed!
SATURDAY, October 18
It is a lean crew for the day. Two other volunteers, Wade and Phil, arrived
at 9am, along with the homeowner, Katie, for the house under construction. She was with two of her five sons, but NOT
her father who was going to help her today.
Mark was going to have them begin sheathing the garage, but without her
dad they didn’t have the numbers who could use power tools. They ended up heading over to the Re-Store to
work there for the day. Phil had driven
up from Gardiner to work – that’s over 80 miles!! He is on the Habitat board – works for
Xanterra at Mammoth Hot Springs in the accounting department. Wade was a local and this was his first time
to volunteer. Nice guy.
By twelve noon, we were all cleaned
up, tools put away, and ready to go.
Mark again said we could come ‘anytime’ and that we had done good
work! Guess that’s a good
recommendation! We changed clothes,
grabbed a quick bite of lunch, and headed west!
The terrain was varied, but not as
forested as we expected. More of the
rolling ranch fields, hay and wheat grasslands, of Eastern Montana, but
interspersed with north-south mountain ranges.
Plenty of high peaks all around us, just not real close. We followed a number of rivers, went past a
couple of reservoirs, saw thousands of rolls of hay, and an equal number of
cattle and sheep!
Once again I am disappointed at the
Continental Divide. No sign, no pass
marker (it was Morida Pass at 6,811’), nothing….just a Welcome to Idaho sign a
little further down the hill. The hills
had been fairly dry and sagebrush covered leading up to the summit. Once we crossed over to the Idaho side,
things seemed to green up rather soon, and we saw more and more tree covered
hills. Interesting.
FRIDAY, October 17
Belgrade Habitat Build Day 3
A chilly morning in Montana! Bozeman was right at freezing, but Mark said
it was 22 at his house in Livingston!
Frost on the windows of the truck!
We got right to work this morning,
knowing we would be flying solo all day long!
First job was to complete the left side of the gable shakes – all the
angle cuts for the roof slant. Once I
figured out how to use the angle tool, that really helped. Plus we decided we could use a wider shake at
the corner tips, so less gluing was necessary.
As usual, you learn little tricks along the way!
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| View north. The lady fell down by the white truck just past the house under construction. |
We told Mark about our ‘time out’
yesterday afternoon to help the lady down the street. When he came back at break time, all three of
us walked down to the house and inquired to see how she was doing, especially
after we saw the ambulance out front as we were leaving yesterday. She broke her upper arm and dislocated her
shoulder. She was feeling very
frustrated with herself as she rested on the couch with a little notebook in
her lap. Her husband and daughter all
appreciated our visit and concern. We
felt better! (Rick commented that it
seems odd when you are relieved to hear it is JUST a broken arm!)
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| A quick visit to the Re-Store for lunch |
By lunch we were at a good stopping
point with just the final panel at the peak of the house to do. We ran over to the Re-Store for hamburgers
and sausage links (and cherry pie for Rick!).
Took a little time to look around today.
Mark also gave us a tour of where they are planning to install a shower,
improve the bathroom, and complete the
hookups for at least five RVs on site. Dave
passed our suggestion on right away about the shower! We also had a chance to say goodbye to Dave
today as he was heading down to West Yellowstone again.
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| View from scaffolding across the street to Bridger Mts. |
We had thoughts of getting started
on another small gable section today, but by the time we finished the shakes
and installed the trim molding up to the peak and back down, we barely had time
for Rick to install the last little section of metal soffit trim before the 4pm
‘bell’ went off. We felt good, however,
with the quality of our joints on the trim.
Again, I found that little angle tool very handy!
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| Rick screws in the final piece of shake siding. |
I did make a couple of cuts today
with the circular saw, but I really am not comfortable with that yet. Rick came down and made all the sharp angle
cuts we needed. We couldn’t use the
little cement ‘snips’ for that board.
The day gradually warmed up to a
very pleasant afternoon, especially in the sun!
Hour by hour we peeled off another layer of clothing!
Coming home we had an interesting
experience. We had just exited the
freeway and were preparing to turn left onto the onramp for westbound/Frontage
Road, but a truck was STUCK under the overpass!
A big semi with a couple of circular trailers with some sort of railing
on top. He couldn’t go under. Ended up backing up (after all the ensuing
traffic had turned around to take another route!) and then turning to go east
bound instead. I imagine he went down to
the next exit to try again to head west!
Weird! We just sat and waited
until he was out of the way and all the other traffic had gone by! Then we could turn onto our Frontage Road and
get to the campground.
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| Our finished work for the two days: a complete gable - soffit, shake siding, and trim boards. |
A little clean up and preparation to
fold up in the morning and pull out for Belgrade. We are taking the trailer with us to the job so
we can leave ASAP at quitting time bound for Idaho Falls. Otherwise quiet evening.
SATURDAY, October 18
Belgrade Build, Day 4
Bozeman to Idaho Falls, 263 miles
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| Madison Mts. to the south as we drive to Belgrade - sunrise light hitting the peaks. |
An earlier morning as we are up and
rolling out of the campground by shortly after 8am. We appreciated the Sunrise hospitality, but
we are reading to spend a night WITHOUT the train whistles blasting through all
night long! We never heard them the
first two nights, but then….oh my!
Gas up in Belgrade enroute to the
job site. We arrive before anyone else,
which is good so we can park the truck and trailer right in front of the vacant
lot. We started moving a little of the
scaffolding while waiting for Mark’s arrival.
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| My only work pix for the week: cutting the soffit panels |
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| Rick and Phil up on the scaffolding. |
Wade and Phil helped Rick and
I. We got the scaffolding moved to the
other side of the house. Neither of them
were eager to ascend the scaffolding, but Rick got Phil up to the second level
where he helped hold and screw from there.
Our goal was to get the soffit in up to the peak, and then as much shake
siding as possible so they can move the scaffolding over soon.
Wade stayed downside with me and we
cut soffit panels, drilled holes, etc.
We scavenged for boards that we could use from the scrap pile to
practice a little economical conservation of materials! Mark appreciated that! All in all, it was a very good morning as the
sun warmed things up, we enjoyed some good conversation with some fine people,
and we got a lot done in a short amount of time!
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| Our finished work for today: half of the soffit in place, and a good start on the siding. |
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| House #1 - we were doing the finishing work on the gables. Homeowner is moved in and renting until her hours are completed. |
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| House #2 - Just getting started. Trusses for roof coming next week. |
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| House #3 - Currently a vacant lot in the middle!!! |
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| Between Belgrade and Whitehall. |
Our route today was I-90 to
Whitehall, then down a cut-off route on MT 55 and 41 to the town of Dillon,
where we joined I-15 headed south. Then a 145 mile straight shot down, over the
Continental Divide and border, and on to Idaho Falls.
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| Jefferson River valley north of Twin Bridges, MT |
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| Continental Divide! How boring!!! |
We pulled into Idaho Falls around
5:00, gassed up for the morning, and found the Snake River RV park easily. Site isn’t anything to cheer about, but it is
clean and quiet. At this point, no
trains yet!
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| Beaverhead Rock |
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| Clark Canyon Reservoir |
SUNDAY, October 19
Idaho Falls to Nampa, ID 269 miles
Rendezvous with Luke at Mason Creek RV
It also got a little cooler than we
anticipated, a damp cool. Midway through
the night I put on my leggings and Rick turned on the heater. That make a difference, but it was still 47
degrees in the trailer when I got up at 7:15am.
We didn’t push things this
morning…we only have 270 miles to go! We
got going around 9:30 heading west on US 20 across the middle of the ‘lava
land’ rather than taking the freeway down and around. Two lane road the whole way, but for the
first few hours we hardly saw any cars!
It is a beautiful sunny fall day –
actually quite warm for Rick on the sunny side of the truck. The land looks dry and the mountains somewhat
hazy. We wonder if fires have been a
recent problem. Plenty of hayfields and
vast ranches. More cows in places, but a
lot of bare sagebrush land. This time of
year isn’t the prettiest for this drive – it all looks so brown except for occasional
clusters of aspens or cottonwoods still golden and some willows.
Well….the trains might have been
preferable to the noise at a campfire just across the road from us. A group renting some of the Camping Cabins
was at it until around 2:30am. I could
live with the guitar music and quiet singing, but a couple of the gals had the
loudest piercing laugh which made sleep difficult. Around 2am, I remembered my devotion for the
day: to thank God for whatever we are given.
So I said thank you for people who had a sense of humor, who had
something to laugh about! I went to
sleep shortly after that!
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| Big Southern Butte outside Arco with red ground cover |
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| Lava beds near Craters of the Moon |
We gas up in Arco and then across
Craters of the Moon National Monument.
We stayed there last fall on the first night of our trip heading
east. A fascinating place, but not
today! The cows are heading to the
barn!
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| Castle Rocks |
As we neared the junction with Hwy
75 toward Hailey and Sun Valley, the land produced a few more trees and a
little more color. We stopped at a
Historical Marker to run back and grab a bite of lunch.
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| Castle Rocks area |
The east wind blew us from Mountain
Home into Boise area – good mileage in that section! We arrived at Mason Creek RV in Nampa around
2:30…pretty close to our 5 hour estimate for the drive! Got
a great site right out in front, hooked up, and a few hours to ‘chill’ while
waiting for Luke to arrive.
And he pulled in right after
5pm!! A good hug and conversation and
then it is dinner time! We head over to
the Mongolian BBQ, Luke providing the transport so we don’t have to unhitched
the truck and trailer. Delicious meal,
evening spent catching up, talking to Jed, cell phone issues, etc! Luke curls up on the front bed in my sleeping
bag for the night….resting up for his big adventure to start Monday
morning!
MONDAY, October 20
Nampa, ID to Baker
City, OR
111 miles
We are the horse heading to the barn
today!!! Up around 7am (it is dark
outside!) to do a few final clean-ups in the trailer (sinks, tubs, toilet, etc –
stuff that we won’t be able to put water down once it is winterized.) Pack and fold everything up and shortly after
8am we are heading down the freeway one exit to Denney’s for breakfast.
Trailer to Bish’s and we drive Luke’s
car to the airport. Mistake to stay on
freeway as between rush hour traffic and the construction, it takes an hour to
go about 4 miles. Luke is late getting
to airport, but OK time wise. We drop
him off and return to pick up the trailer.
I check my phone before heading home and find a message from Luke that
his flight is delayed and he will miss his international connection in SF. My heart drops into my stomach for him. He assures us to head home, nothing we can
do, he’ll get there! Just another long wait in the Boise airport!
Off we go! It is always a thrill to see the sign outside
of Caldwell that first shows Baker City mileage: 100 miles to home! Everything is so dry, especially the hills of
the Burnt River Canyon. I decide I can’t
make it all the way home after drinking my whole pop and detour to the
Weatherby Rest Area. I have to laugh as
Rick is just pulling in as I prepare to get back on to the freeway. He couldn’t make it either!
We get home about 12:30pm….Baker
time. As I pull into town I think to
myself….all these trips this year….do I still live here? What is going on in my city? I feel just a little displaced this return. And
sorry….no pictures for today. I should
have taken a couple of Luke, but didn't and then I was driving on the way home. :(
WRAP-UP.
As usual, it is three days later as
I finally get the blog finished. We had
the trailer and truck all unpacked within two hours of our return. Wednesday night we took the washed and
cleaned trailer, all winterized and ready, over to Classic Storage off 10th
Street to park for the winter. The cost
will only be $25 a month. It is
relatively close and secure. We put the cover
over the top and will hope it works out.
This is the first time we haven’t been able to just pull it across the
street and leave it in Ryan’s driveway, but his house finally sold! (Good for Ryan!)
Luke made it to Indonesia. He flew out at 4pm MT on Monday to Los
Angeles and caught a flight to Tokyo around 11pm. About 15 hours late in arriving in Jakarta,
but he sent a text of safe arrival and pictures with Kady on Wednesday evening. Hopefully the rest of his trip will go
smoothly!
Got on the Habitat CAV site this morning and sent my emails to Mary in regard to our extra hours in Columbia Falls and Belgrade. So....I think all the loose ends are getting tied up and we can put this trip to rest. It was a great one between concentrated time in Columbia Falls, establishing great friendships, and our visits to the national parks, amazing hikes and scenery. Thank you God, once again, for the health and means to do this work.
Got on the Habitat CAV site this morning and sent my emails to Mary in regard to our extra hours in Columbia Falls and Belgrade. So....I think all the loose ends are getting tied up and we can put this trip to rest. It was a great one between concentrated time in Columbia Falls, establishing great friendships, and our visits to the national parks, amazing hikes and scenery. Thank you God, once again, for the health and means to do this work.
FINAL TRIP DETAILS:
Total Miles: 3424 Trailer
Miles: 1887
Total Nights: 60 Cost
per day: $66
Days Worked
Habitat: 26
