Aug 03 2008
Driving to Idaho (Wednesday, July 23)
John had to go to work this morning so I waited at home and packed all our stuff so we could leave for Idaho. John’s boss paid for us to rent a car for the trip, I guess he felt bad for making us postpone our trip by 2 days. I have been really excited about this trip for a long time. I really enjoy visiting my family and I am especially excited to meet Eva, Paisley, and Sophie and see the rest of my nieces and my nephew. I will get to see every member of my family, all 24 of us, but not all at the same time so no family picture.
We left around 1:30 and I drove first. It is always hard to adjust to a new car and I had to merge onto all the different freeways in this giant SUV, but I made it. I drove until we got to Baker, CA where it was 108 degrees on the giant thermometer. It was so hot that when we stepped out of the car I felt like I was being suffocated, and we were in the shade. We filled up the tank and paid more for one pump than I ever have, although the $4.33 price per gallon is significantly less than what I’m used to paying. I also realized that Icees are not nearly as good as Slurpees. Since we were there we decided to stop in at the alien jerky shop and get some jerky. It was out of this world.
My dad must have been pretty excited for us to come, he called me three times.
We were really excited to stop in Henderson (Las Vegas) at Cafe Rio. We have really missed Cafe Rio since we moved to California. The best thing on the menu is the pork salad without beans. It is such a good combination of flavors. Funny thing, I could tell that a lot of the people who came to eat at the Cafe Rio were LDS.
We drove through the small Nevada town of Ely. Ely had quite the night life, we could hear the karaoke singing as we drove by. We drove through the night and while I was sleeping John drove us to Wendover rather than Wells. So we had a little detour, no big deal. We stopped to sleep somewhere in between Wendover and Wells, then got up Thursday morning and drove the rest of the way.
It sounds like you guys had a good time - despite the heat, the cost of gas, and the detour! We used to drive to SLC to see our family, but we don’t anymore. The drive is too long! You guys are troopers to go all the way to Idaho. I hope you had a great time with your family!
Glad you guys could come. It was good to see both of you!
We miss Cafe Rio too. We should all go in on a franchise, I bet it would do pretty good around here!
Yup, we’ve missed the V and gone to Wendover too! Sounds like a fun trip; how did you guys get home?