June 3 – High Altitude Desert

Coffee and breakfast in the Toyhouse.  checked our e-mails (I can tether my Droid for Internet access) before we hit the road. We couldn’t do this while in Canada because the Roaming rates for data are astronomical, And we couldn’t do it in Alaska, because I was getting throttled on my data usage, when it was available (URGH)

We missed our I-84 turn off of I-90, so we decided to take the back roads to pick up I-84.  Very nice, this route took us through miles of orchards It looked to be predominantly apples and grapes (wine).  It reminded me of the Central Valley orchards in California, if you ever drive down Rt99 through Modesto.  I don’t remember the name of the last dam we passed on that route, but after that, the orchards abruptly ended and we were back to high altitude plains.

 

For the longest time, we could still see Mt Rainer, even though it was almost 100 miles away.

We followed I-84 to Twin Falls Idaho where we picked up US-93 south. This would take us down to the border gambling town of Jackpot Nevada.

I’ve been to jackpot many times, mostly I flew into their airport for a gathering of LongEZ aircraft.  We hold our annual “RACE” Rutan And Composite Enthusiast” gatherings there.  It was kind of nice to see this town again, only from the ground level at a much lower speed.

We pulled into Cactus Pete’s RV Camp, had a very good steak dinner at the Casino and dropped our obligatory $20 in the one armed bandit..

Time to call it a night.

Odometer  >>  9,030

John and Jodie

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