Moving on to Idaho
We have left Leslie Gulch and landed in Meridian, ID at the Meridian Boise RV park. We have had a few exciting encounters, one costly and one that surprised us.
We left our BLM campsite on a late morning Tuesday. We cut our stay short only because we had hiked and seen all we needed to see. If you are following Dale’s website, you know we encountered a rattlesnake on our hike. Actually, Morgan found it out of curiosity. We have been worried about her reaction to finding a snake and we are glad to report that she froze and then came when called. We didn’t know she had found the snake until we got closer and heard the rattle. Dale moved in to take pictures of it and you can catch it here http://www.rvecafe.com/wanderEOR03.html I took off the other way as snakes are not something I want to even see. As you can tell in this picture, this snake was huge!
Our hike was beautiful though. We walked up a wash on the Juniper Trail until we couldn’t go any farther. The ground and most of the mountains there are ash from a long volcano. It was a powdery like substance with small pebbles. On the trail we found many wild flowers. Came across an apple tree that had one branch with apples on it. We saw many places where the rock was carved out from waterfalls. We found a bird’s nest in one of the many holes in the rock. It was a beautiful hike and we lucked out on the weather. Thunderstorms had come through the day before and cooled everything down. So Monday was about 20 degrees cooler than the days before.
On our way out of Leslie Gulch, at the 10 mile mark with 15 miles of gravel road to go our Pressure Pro went off. This is a gismo that Dale purchased to monitor the tire pressure of the tires on the RV. Otherwise, we 
may not know if we get a flat. Well, all of a sudden it went of, beep, beep, beep and we watched the left rear tire pressure fall quickly. We pulled over and sure enough! A rock had cut a tire and according to Les Schwab it was unrepairable. We had the tire changed in about 35 minutes and was back on the road headed for Marsing, ID.
That was our costly encounter. We purchased a new tire at the Meridian Les Schwab and David, my son, met us there. It is always so good to see him as we don’t get together very often. I hope to remedy that now that we are on the road. Next stop was the RV park because it is close to their home. And it was just a couple of street away from Les Schwab.
We checked in and the Escapee’s 15% discount lowered the nightly fee. Go Escapees! We set up and turned on the air conditioner right away. Hooray for 50 amps! We then went to dinner with the family at a place called Soupersald! A buffet of salad makings and soup, plus other things. We had a grand time catching up and finding out what the grandchildren are up to.
They went home and we came back to get some rest. Morgan needed to be walked as we left her in the rig with the cool air. I went to check out the laundry room, ie. cost and all while Dale too the dog across the street. On his way back he was meet by a fellow who stuck out his hand and introduced himself. Dale did likewise. He told us that he has been following our website due to the fact he had to come up to Idaho from Nevada and thought about buying and staying in an RV. He said our site gave him confidence to do just that. We had a grand chat with him and was so very pleased to meet him. We were glad he hunted us down. That was our surprise encounter.
Today was catch up, clean up and stock up day. Had time to have lunch with David and they are coming over for dinner. This mountain time is killing us. We have been eating lunch around 3 pm and dinner late. If we are hungry. Usually we have two meals a day. Although, th
ey had a $4.00 breakfast at the club house this morning and it was excellent. I had gotten my wash started about 15 minuetes before breakfast so it could get done while I was eating. I lucked out and had all 6 washers to myself!
Oh, we did find a big RV do it yourself stall at a car wash and got most of the dirt and grim off the rigs! We pulled into Meridian pretty darn clean!
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