18-degrees and an ice scraper

Growing, grazing and laz-ing

Craters of the Moon National Monument

REXBURG, ID - -  We're sitting in a Great Harvest Bread Company location. When I asked about coffee the young guy at the cash register hollered to his boss in the back to see if it was ok to say they had coffee.  Why?  Rexburg is very Mormon and coffee is one of the things on the Mormon list of  don't's.
     Now, before we got here we took a long scenic drive along the Salmon River on our way to Ketchum and Sun Valley.  We found a BLM campground with a great view of the surrounding mountains and settled in.  It was 18-degrees when we got up.  Ice in the water bottles and frost on the windshield.  Fortunately, I still carry an ice scraper for such occasions.   Sorry, no pics as we left before the sun reached out site so Lydia could thaw her feet out.
     Ketchum is an interesting place.  Glitzy like Aspen rather than laid back like Steamboat Springs.  We walked around, we looked around and we left.  Hailey, just down the road was much more in tune with the mountain life.
     Craters of the Moon National Monument,  a place we had never been, was on our way so we stopped off.  It's a huge area of lava fields, cones, caves and craters.  It's hard to show what it's like in photos and you can really only see the craters from above.  We wandered around, took the 7-mile scenic drive and headed out.
    Arco was our stop for the night.  It proclaims itself as "The first city in the U.S. to be lit by atomic energy."   It was the first peace time use of reactor energy for power.  Luckily, we didn't see anybody glowing in the dark.
     Now we're on our way to West Yellowstone (western entry to Yellowstone NP) and then Grand Teton NP ...or maybe the other way around.