The goal for the day was to find the Cache Across America - Idaho which would be our 48th CAA and complete the Continental States for us leaving just Alaska and Hawaii for next year (hopefully). We were going to have breakfast at the hotel but the breakfast room was woefully undersized and very busy so Al grabbed a bagel and I had a yogurt from our cooler and we headed out. We were just barely North of Salt Lake City when I realized that I could not find out Verizon Mobile Hot Spot . . .I don't think I ever took it in the room in Salt lake because we had good internet there so we had to have left it in Cedar City, Utah or lost it somewhere else. We stopped at the 1st McD's we came to because they have WiFi and I suspended access to the Hot Spot . . . we decided to call the hotels when we stopped later and then look for a Verizon Store in Boise.
We continued up the road and crossed into
The next stop was CAA Idaho . . . unlike all of the other states we have found this cache was unique in the fact that is was very remote. We drove nearly 30 miles on a mostly dirt road into a very rural area. Eventually we arrived at the area and it was a gorgeous canyon ahead of us.
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| The canyon |
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| CAA - IDAHO |
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So many times as we travel through the West we marvel at the landscape and the people who drove covered wagons across the country. . . just amazing what they had to go though over and around.
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| A nice fishing spot on the Snake River |
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A few more caches along the road and we headed to Boise for the night and to take care a few things. Our rental car has tires that are nearly down to the wear marks and the brakes shudder when you apply them. We were thinking that we were going to be in Boise for a couple of days and it is the largest city in the state so we could call up Hertz and exchange the car for another like we did last year. I also wanted to call the hotels about the MiFi. The hotel calls turned out to be useless so I searched out a nearby Verizon Store. I also contacted Hertz and they didn't have any car for us and suggested that we either go back 2 hours to Twin Falls or possibly have the tires looked at by a Firestone Dealer . . . all of which were closed until morning. So we headed to the Verizon Store and got a replacement for the MiFi the details of which are amazing and unpublishable.
By this time we are tired and just head back to the hotel to do a load or two of laundry, eat cold pizza and go to bed.
Tomorrow . . . hopefully we will get the car taken care of and be able to do some geocaching.
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