From Utah to Idaho

Thursday, May 27 -- Today was a travel day, so I took an early morning walk to say goodbye to this lovely campground.  I caught the sun hitting the mountaintop, so I tried to capture it.

Paul and Carol left us today to head toward their home in Northern California.  We got on the road about 10:00, after Marilyn cooked a group breakfast of biscuits and gravy (Brenda, eat your heart out), eggs, and the trimmings, and we said our goodbyes.  Joe called his mother yesterday to get her address (I was going to send her something and forgot to take my address book with me), and she informed him that she still lived in the same place, they hadn't sent her to the nursing home yet.  Gotta love Lucille!  Oh, Jeff, I wanted you to know we put the fuzzy sheets back on the bed this week.  It's been a little chilly.

We drove past the northern edge of the great Salt Lake and headed into Idaho.  There was a fire across the lake, but we didn't hear what it was. You can see the smoke in the pix.  We didn't get very close to the lake, so I did not get a good pix. 

We did see a few deer grazing along the side of the road after we got into Idaho.  There is a lot of pasture fields in this area, and the hillside is dotted with sheep and cattle.  It is very pretty to drive through.
As we headed out of Utah and into Idaho (finally), we had some sprinkles from time to time, and after we got camped for the night at Delco, Idaho, it showered pretty good.  We are about 200 yards from the Snake River.  Dave has been having trouble with his foot and ankle ever since we left, and today it was really hurting him, so he was cripping around all day.  After we set up camp, Marilyn checked out his foot and we all went with him to a clinic nearby (he was thrilled with all our help).  After x-rays, it was determined that he had another flare-up of gout, which he has a history of.  So he has more medicine, and hopefully will improve greatly in the next day or two.   The pix below is the Snake River and rain clouds.

Here is our campsite, in another very nice park.  And it has lilacs!  Not sure what the plans are for tomorrow.  Since it is the holiday weekend, we might have trouble finding camping spots.  We will wait to see how Dave is, and what the weather forecast is.  This would not be a bad place to stay put, and it even has a private fishing pond that we could use.