Our final day in Idaho

On the walk back from kayaking, we ran into Biska’s doggie friends; two standard poodle mixes (doodles of some sort) at a neighboring cabin. Biska loves other dogs more than anything else in life, so we let them run around together for a few minutes. It was a very rural area, without much traffic on those back gravel roads.

The only issue was some sort of awful burrowing seed, like cheatgrass but in a corkscrew shape that twisted itself into the dogs. The poodles were in much worse shape than Biska, with their thick curly fur. But even with Biska’s straight fur, we still had to carefully remove all the seeds each time before she came inside.

We were due to leave our Idaho cabin the next morning. What should we do for our final afternoon? We had hiked! And we had kayaked! The forecast was yet again calling for afternoon thunderstorms. What was the point of sticking around until morning, just sit inside for another rainy afternoon? Plus, the bed was super small. It was supposedly a queen size but I think it was just a double. We would be just as comfortable in our van.

Plus, if we waited to leave until morning we’d hit Salt Lake City at rush hour on a Thursday afternoon (which is worse than Fridays nowadays). We’d get in late at our campground that night. For that matter, why were we even planning to stay at a campground? Maybe we should just leave early and wing it!

John remembered a pleasant-enough county park with RV camping outside Twin Falls. If we left now instead of waiting until morning, we could get there by evening and have a big jump start on the following day. We could breeze through Salt Lake before rush hour and have time to find a private boondoggle site (an at-large spot where it’s ok to camp) instead of staying at the campground we had reserved.

We loaded up, texted the airbnb host that we had a nice time but were leaving early, and headed out into the approaching rain.

Here we are at the county park the next morning.

Next stop – Utah! Where we were looking at – more afternoon thunderstorms.

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