Sunday, 05 August 2007
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Day 2
Saturday August 4th
Bob writes
We started out late today because we had a hard time waking up from the late night before. We got out of Boise pretty quickly because there was not a lot to do! We headed out for around 115 miles and got to Twin Falls Idaho. I had been there ten years ago when I drove out from Chicago but it had changed a lot. An entire town has sprung up around the Snake River canyon bridge. Every possible chain store had sprung up. We looked out over the edge of the canyon and it was awesome. We then went to see Shoshone Falls a few miles away. It is dubbed the Niagara Falls of the West and it did not disappoint.
On the way back we tried to hook up my Bluetooth phone to my computer and get on the internet. That worked great. I then signed onto Yahoo and turned on my web cam. I then connected to Karri and the boys and we tried to have a conversation by audio which only worked for about a minute before pooping out. They could see me on webcam but it was choppy and the windows behind me were so bright that it was blurry. We did do some instant messaging for a while before giving up because of the lag time. It was amazing that it almost worked. Ten years ago I could barely find an AM station and now we are on the verge of pretty amazing technology.
We have great pictures from those experiences. After having lunch we headed out towards Salt Lake City. We arrived around dinner time and drove around the city. The downtown area has really gone downhill so we headed towards the outer portion where we found the mall and other stuff that only locals would be interested in. We had dinner and decided to check out some hotels and see what was available. It started to get dark quickly so we at the last minute we just decided to do another 100 miles or so. Along the way we checked out hotel after hotel and found none available until we got to Evanston Wyoming. We found a skuzzy Super 8 hotel with an opening and crashed for the night. The paintings above our beds were exactly the same, about half of the electrical outlets were too weak to hold up a charger, and the shower was a little scary... On the way it appeared there is something interesting going on here so we will check it out this morning.
---J: Turns out it was nothing interesting to us
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