Heading East...

 I'm feeling a little cautious about leaving the property for so long this year. So I've hired Ron the Garden Guy to keep the yard up, invited the neighbors to use the driveways anytime they want and made a couple other precautions. Now we just leave, have great times with our Yuma neighbors and hope for the best.

We were a little bummed, when we found out our quad riding in SE Utah was cancelled. But after a couple days and some discussion...our trip continues with just a slight change. We're now going to 'discover' SW Utah...the Vermillion Cliffs and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon before heading to Mesa and Yuma.

The first day was pretty laughable. We took the shortcut off Hwy 97 towards Silver Lake, Christmas Valley and Hwy 20. But we talked and gawked along the way until we reached a rest area at Summer Lake. OOPS, missed our turn and had to backtrack. The first night we watched the 'Harvest Moon' come up over a gravel pile where we spent the night just west of Burns.

 

The next day we pulled into Bruneau Sand Dunes State Park in Idaho. It's a beautiful park, but not what we expected. We expected a park full of quad  and sand buggy nuts, but not so. The only thing you can do on the dunes is walk and/or slide. The camp host was flabbergasted at the number of folks arriving for the weekend. After telling us we had to find a space in the overflow campground, he added he had never seen so many people here. BTW, the overflow is really nice; the trees just aren't so big.

 

On Friday night members of the Boise Astronomical Society came out to the observatory located in the park and set-up all manner of wonderful telescopes. We got to see magnificent stars, planets and galaxies. The young man from Mountain Home Airbase had his telescope trained on E.T. Yep, he's up there, but he does have a fancier name, I just can't remember it...lol.

Yesterday we did some geocaching, which included hiking to some. Although we left home with everything clean, the pickup and our shoes are terribly dusty now. 

 Of course, after being in the desert...ice cream is called for! We drove about eight miles into the tiny town of Bruneau for cones...

 Now we're off to Twin Falls and more adventures.

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One last note...are the flies always this bad in Idaho in September? YUK!