Idaho

Yesterday we had our 1st day off. We made it across Oregon and now are in Idaho. We spent the 1st day in Boise. It looks like a great city. We did some walking around, went to a bike shop(imagine that), to the post office to mail some things home, and to Boise State to see the blue football field. Ted wanted todo a snow angel on the 50 yd. line which he was able to do.

In the early evening we met Ken's best friends brother, who lives in Boise. He was very kind, took us to the post office to drop off our boxes to be sent home and to REI and outdoors store, which had more biking stuff. I only looked in this store, no I did purchase a small item which I really didn't need but wanted. After that, he took to a reservoir outside of town, it is completely filled by snow melt. Then it was on to dinner,and I was good once again and did not have a beer. That has been really hard.

Today was a short 51 mi and really pretty boring as far as scenery, there was not a whole lot to look at. Most of the time we were on the highway and dodging a lot of stuff along the berm. Ted had a flat nd I had a wire in the back tire, but I was able to pull it out with out any further damage.

Tommorrow we have an early start with a 97 mi ride. Following the Snake River and will go past where Evil Knevil(sp?) did his jump years back.