The trip was uneventful until we arrived at the exit for ID55. On the map it looks like a straight shot north to the campground. Ah, but were we fooled.
First you exit onto a busy city street through a very affluent area of Boise. The road is 7 lanes wide and pretty busy for 11am.
The road narrows to 2 lanes and starts this steep incline. Fortunately, you get a good running start. It is a long climb turning into a 5 mile 7% down grade. This was fun, but it gets better. The distance from I84 to the CG is about 70 miles, and the road becomes narrow with no shoulders, a steep drop off and twisty, windy curves. It was white knuckle in some places.The Payette River runs along the side of the road and the vistas are spectacular, but, you'll have to ask Brenda about that as I was busy driving.
We arrived about 1pm and was greeted by some very lovely people.
Mark and Jennifer and their children arrived around 4pm. Becky, Fred and Lindsay arrived around 6pm.Mark left the night before as it is a 600 mile drive from the Seattle area to here.
Fred and Becky left @5:30am and drove straight through. They were tired.
Mark and Jennifer came down from the north on ID55 and we came up from the south. They reported that 55 from the north was pretty much the way we described the southern route.
It surely was nice to see Fred again after 2 years. and Lindsay sure has grown since I saw her last year. I won't let this happen again that it is so long between visits.
Fred wants to do some fishing today as we are right on the Payette River, so we are going into town to check on fishing licenses. They brought their 12 foot jon boat,
Ta ta for now.
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