days eight and nine.. twin falls, and home..
And.. so yah, that’s basically the trip…
From Yellowstone, we drove north up through Montana since I wanted to see the Big Sky country and all… Granted, I’m easily swayed by advertising slogans and all, but I swear the sky really is bigger up in Montana. I mean, the skies in Idaho were cool, but those would be more like “Rather Large Sky” country rather than the “Big Sky” country you get up in Montana. Right at the border between Montana and Idaho, you can feel the sky shrink a little bit. Really!
We stayed the night in Twin Falls, Idaho — which bills itself as “The World’s Most Overlooked Place”. Now, what the hell kind of slogan is that.. that’s second only to Kalamazoo, Michigan’s slogan, “Yes, there really IS a Kalamazoo.” Ugh… Nothing will ever come close to my favorite town slogan.. “Ithaca is Gorges.” Anyway, Twin Falls should really be renamed No Falls, Idaho. Apparently, due to seven years of drought, they’ve turned OFF the falls so that the farmers can irrigate their crops. So there’s really nothing to look at (maybe that’s why it’s overlooked). I mean, at least rename it Twin Cliffs, Idaho or something. Sheesh. Then again, Twin Falls wasn’t all that bad.. we were treated to an encore presentation of the sunset and rainbow that we saw the night before in Yellowstone (my wise friend Doug once told me.. “sunsets happen every day”).
And that’s it… Natalie and I made it home safely.. I think the trip was about 3,000 miles in total… Natalie earned herself a silver medal in roadtripping on her inaugural performance on a classic american roadtrip (she earned extra points for the geology lessons). And no flat tires this time.. Hmm.. come to think of it, this is my ONLY major roadtrip without a blown out tire… Alaska trip.. blown out tire.. Southwest trip, blown out tire.. hmm.. Maybe I’ve learned something after all of these miles..
August 23rd, 2005 at 1:49 pm
You really shouldn’t visit, or talk about, Twin Falls Idaho without paying homage to the movie of the same name.
It may not have as catchy a slogan, but it’s a great movie nonetheless.