Day 1 - 6/21

And off we go! After packing last minutes items and saying final goodbye's we set off for Farragut State Park in Idaho around 11 AM. Our first planned stop was a rest area to each lunch, however it was closed due to repairs. I hope that doesn't foreshadow the rest of our trip! On the way, we saw a boat that had fallen off of a car into the median of the highway. Traffic was backed up for a while. The boat wasn't even a small one. It was bigger than the truck pulling it. We also saw a white stretch limo--extra extra stretch. However, it wasn't just seeing the actual limo that was unusual. On the back there was a bike rack with a bike attached! After a couple gas stops and lunch in Moses Lake we finally arrived. The park was very beautiful. It was created to be a Naval Training Base for the U.S. Navy. Now the question is, why would the Navy want to train people in the

middle of the Rocky Mountains? In 1967 there was an International Boy Scout Jamboree and now people come from all over to camp there. The weather was perfect and perhaps best of all there were minimal bugs and mosquitos. There was a playground nearby that the girls enjoyed playing at. Meanwhile, the boys and I had a brief pinecone war that ended as soon as Mom was almost hit with one. It was cute to see Julia running around in her little sandals throwing pinecones as well.