7/3-4
Off at 5:30 am. Took 2 nd pair of nitro pills at lunch with Godwards. We were so busy talking about all of our surgeries that photos were forgotten. I have a problem remembering that the cellphone is also a camera!
Highest pass was about 7000 ft at MT-ID border. Took shortcut on ID22 SW toward Arco and got delayed by a 4th of July parade in the town of Howe. Since the town has a population of only 25, the delay was 5 minutes for the flag carriers, 2 cars 3 golf carts, a bunch of kids on decorated bicycles and one small child in a battery powered toy car and no bands or horseback riders. Took longer for the watchers to get off the street than the parade to go by.
Interestingly, the shortcut stayed at 5000-6000 ft almost all the way and did not drop down the the Snake river plain till the last 10 miles.
Called my sister and had the Google the Walmart location. Turned out to be just on the far side of I84 on the same street I came into town on. Could not have seen it because it is down slope from the freeway.
I arrived at 9 pm after traveling 716 miles. I did it pain free because of the overdose of nitro pills. Can't do that again for a while as overuse reduces the effectiveness of the med (build up of tolerance).
1 eagle, 3 white pelicans, 2 deer, 12 antelope, 1 jackrabbit, several hawks A few small elongate furry critters scurried across in front of me and many splattered stained the concrete.
On the 4th I came down to 300 ft at the John Day Dam.
Very windy here. It made the watching of the Tour de France stage 1 quite pixelated.
Tomorrow will visit Dean & Diane Kleinsmith at Bonneville dam fish hatchery.