This has been a whirlwind of a week in Idaho, that’s for sure.

I arrived around 9am on Sunday to my friend and co-workers place in Twin Falls where I was staying until Wednesday. As I said, I brought my trailer down with me – good and bad. The good is I have somewhere comfortable to sleep and the dogs feel “at home”, the bad, the amount of extra fuel it costs me to drag that thing around. As some know, I have two trailers, who doesn’t need two, right? So, I brought the smaller trailer down here, a 1983 20 foot trailer that’s built like a tank. It will probably outlive all of us – they knew how to build things back then.

Anyway… We parked in front of the Hornbacher residence and connected to his power. It tripped his breaker. We eventually ran an extension cord to the trailer so I would have power for lights and a fan. Turns out we think it may be a faulty extension cord. It rained a lot of the day on Sunday but we were able to get out for a few hours with the dogs and go for a walk and some sightseeing.

There is an amazing canyon in Twin Falls and a pretty cool arch bridge going over the canyon. We were able to watch a group of base jumpers do their thing and jump off of the bridge, not something I would do.

Sunday for dinner, I had brought Alberta beef with me, New York Strips and some Texas Twinkies as well (jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese inside a chicken breast and all of that wrapped in thick cut bacon) and I made my World Famous potatoes. Dinner was great.

Monday, I took my hosts out for dinner, it was their one-month anniversary. We went to a place called Elevation 486, pretty good food indeed. They need to work on the Caesar salad though.

Tuesday, DH smoked a tri-tip that he wasn’t impressed with, but I loved it. My Mom used to cook roasts until they were extra-well done, so this was juicy by comparison. Wednesday was a travel day and I stopped at the house of one of the people who works for me to ensure I saw her and her husband in person. I was supposed to have dinner with them, but timing just didn’t work out unfortunately. They were kind enough to get me a take-away bag of food though so that was awesome of them.

Wednesday night, I checked into the Meridian (just outside of Boise Idaho) KOA – Campgrounds of America, or Kampgrounds, perhaps. Really nice campground, that’s for sure, one of the nicest I have ever seen. Thursday, I worked in the Boise IBM office and commandeered my Director’s former office. Thursday night a bunch of fellow IBMers went out for dinner to Kona Grill. I had an amazing stir fry and a double brownie dessert.

Today is my last day in Idaho. The dogs and I will camp again this evening and will head out at first light tomorrow. We will stop again in Twin Falls and will have breakfast with the Hornbachers and then hopefully stop further along the line and meet another co-worker for a coffee.

I plan on making it to Great Falls Montana by Saturday evening and I will find somewhere to park the trailer and spend the night – quite likely a Walmart parking lot. Sunday morning, I will get to Lethbridge Alberta and will stop at Costco for a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dessert on Sunday night. After dinner, we will make the final 2.5 hour drive north to home and then back to work Monday morning.

What a week it has been…