| Starting out in the nice new D terminal
at the Nashville International Airport. |
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| I had not been in Midway Airport
before. This looks like it was an old hanger. It has a certain WPA
look about it. |
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| I think we are over Wyoming. |
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| And now probably Idaho. |
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| This was my rental car. Well, for about
five hours or so anyway. It was a Jeep Compass. |
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| Hit the ground, get the vehicle and
head straight out of town. |
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| I will just warn you, there will be a
lot of photos of the road on the drive. |
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| I use them as kind of segues between
places and to show what it looks like to drive in these places. |
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| Or if there is a change in the road
condition, like from paved to unpaved. There were certain sections
of the road that had several chipmunks and loads of big grasshoppers
on it. I didn't run over any chipmunks, but many grasshoppers sadly
didn't make it. |
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| To the southwest of Boise are
mountains, in which you will find... |
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| ...Silver City, Idaho. |
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| A babbling brook. |
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| It's a ghost town, although there are a
few businesses open like Pat's What-Not Shop, the one in the white
building. |
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| The old schoolhouse from 1892. |
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| The Daly barn. |
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| The drug store. |
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| Who would have thought that back around
the late 19th century that they would have had solar panels on the
roofs of buildings? |
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| There were lots of people up here on a
Saturday driving around on ATV's. |
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| The Masonic Lodge building. |
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| Okay, so on the way back down out of
the mountains a "Service Transmission" warning came on the dash that
would not go away. I was not about to drive another seven days with
that potential problem, so I headed straight back to the airport to
swap vehicles. This time I got a Hyundai Tucson. Did not have any
problems with it, which is good considering the many miles I put on
it. |
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| I wasn't going to make it to the place
I was going to go next, so it was straight to the hotel, The
Sparrow. |
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| It was a nice little boutique hotel
with potato facts on the walls. |
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| The state capitol building. |
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| I had dinner at the Bittercreek
Alehouse where I had a good burger and a nice cider. |
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| I know it was a late Saturday afternoon
in a downtown area, but Boise seemed surprisingly empty to me as I
walked around that day. |
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