DAY THIRTEEN - Yellowstone to Pocatello, ID
Got on the road early. As we drove, we ate the blueberry muffins I made last night. Near the park entrance, we entered Montana. Shortly after that we turned south and entered Idaho. We are looking forward to staying at a KOA campground tonight with electricity, water, showers and laundry and hopefully Internet, too. We REALLY need showers. And it would be nice if the couple sweatshirts we’ve been wearing nonstop for the last 5 days were clean again. Idaho is not too impressive. Although an odd thing happened on I-15 shortly after we got on it: we were looking at farms surrounded by pine forest and all of a sudden we were looking at desert scrub along the sides of the road. Then it changed to cornfields. Very odd. We can see a lot of mountains to our east.
We did some menu planning on the drive, then stopped at a grocery store. We pulled into the Pocatello KOA about 3 p.m. Showers and laundry were the first order of business. Then Nora took a late nap. We had to wake her up for dinner, and she was not happy. But then we had pudding for dessert and she was much more content after that. We blew bubbles for awhile. We have Internet here! And electricity! But it’s so warm, we may not really need it. Nice to have, though. Just clicked through a list of cheapest states to get gas, and of the many states we are traveling through, only a couple are on the list. And one is Ohio, so that won’t be helpful for awhile.
Pocatello seems like a nice little town. The University of Idaho is here, and it is surrounded on all sides by mountains.
I made dinner last night (the first time on this trip!) and then David took Nora to fold the laundry and bring it back to the camper. He convinced her to go by offering her a ride in the duffel bag. It was such a success, she demanded a ride in the bag on the way back, too. Since it was filled with folded clothes, I saw them returning, David holding the duffel bag, clothes folded at the bottom, and Nora lying down across the clothes on top, inside the handles. She was awake, but lying perfectly still. She was so excited, though. “Mama, ride bag! Lay down, Mama!” She didn’t want to get up, even after David put the bag down on the floor. We played some cards and went to bed with the furnace set at about 68. It was a beautiful thing, not waking up cold or worrying about the kids. I slept great.