Rocks, Potatoes, and Rainbows:Heading East by Southeast

Before we could head out, driving south by southeast, to escape the winter snow, we needed to make one more drug run to the Walmart at Idaho Falls. On the way down the canyon we had to stop as a scaling operation was taking place. Scaling is the road work that occurs when rocks are threatening to fall on the road way. Here the Idaho Crew had placed dynamite and brought down huge boulders. I was reminded of the warning signs, Watch for falling Rocks!
We also had to dodge falling potatoes as the potato harvest is in full swing! Trucks are everywhere, in the field following the harvesters, plying the roads to storage bins, and unloading potatoes in the earth berm storage beds. We have never seen so many potatoes in our lives and yes there were potatoes falling off the trucks  and rolling down the highway!

Saying our goodbyes we hooked up the truck and headed south to Lyman, Wyoming. There we parked at a campground and unhooked. The next day we drove to Salt Lake City for Renita's last doctor checkup and got great news so the winter's travels were definitely a go!

Returning up the Canyon, east of Salt Lake City we hit a torrential downpour! The road was awash in places and we both worried about a flash flood or mudslides. Cresting the pass the rain eased and by the time we reached Evenston, Wyoming it actually stopped so we headed to the local rock shop.
We had tried to stop there earlier this summer but the owners wife had fallen and cut her arm so we had driven her to the hospital.The owner told us she had required thirty stitches and that she had healed without any complications!

Of course we had to look at the rocks and we found some nice pieces of dinosaur bone! When we tried to pay he told us the rocks were on the house, more dinosaur bone! Picking up a pizza, (first pizza in five months, (yes we do have a pizza place near us in Star Valley, but we are not crazy about their pies), we returned to our campground and the next morning we were rewarded with a rainbow.
Hooking up, the rain returned and we drove across the state to a campground we use in Cheyenne, Wyoming.On the way we crossed two passes and the last one almost overheated the truck. We had to put on our flashers, slow down, and put the heater on high to keep the engine out of the red line, (a common ploy if your engine overheats when you cross a steep mountain pass).
From Cheyenne it was all downhill as we stopped at North Platte, Nebraska. Tomorrow we will head further east, stopping at our hometown and then turning south. We might stop at Nashville and then Chattanooga, before crossing Georgia and on to St Petersburg. However as our friends Joe and Marsha would say travels plans are written on an "Etch a Sketch", and constantly change. Clear skies and safe travels.