Mountain Home ID to Ogden UT

Today we drove from Mountain Home, Idaho to Ogden, Utah crossing the flat plains of lower Idaho in the reverse direction of our earlier summer travels.  As we climbed the on-ramp early in the day, we saw onions again on the side of the road again and several onion trucks passed us going down the road in the same direction as we were traveling.  Like California, the production and transport of food is impressive to me and makes the reality of what it takes to get that onion onto a grocery shelf a much broader concept.

It was a relatively benign travel day until just before we reached our stop for the night.  A huge plume of black and white smoke with visible flames beneath the smoke could be seen rising just off the Interstate Highway a bit north of Ogden.  We have no idea what caused it or what was being done to fight the fire.  It did not appear on any news we watched.  After a summer of wildfires, it is sobering to see anything like this with everything so dry.

On these travel days it is hard to catch our routine naps.  Some days they get delayed to late in the day.  Snoopy accommodates naps whenever they occur however.  He travels mostly under the couch going down the road.  But overall, he’s been a trooper for this long summer of work.  We are all looking forward now to getting back to Florida and out of the RV for a while.