We made it to Twin Falls by Saturday night. We had planned to drive thru to Boise, but Twin Falls lured and seduced us into dawdling.
Some of the photos can be seen here.
The storm from the last post caused some damage in Twin Falls, ripping the roof off one or two of the hotels. We scored a room at the Super8, probably the last two rooms in Twin Halls per hotels.com and expedia.com
Melissa checked us in, and we had really nice rooms. Nothing could have been better for a hotel in that category. I got one of the best night’s sleep I had in years.
Twin Falls is the site of Evil Kneivel‘s jump over the Snake River Canyon.
The Snake River Canyon is something to behold. The Snake River is wide and strong, and offers paddlers serious challengers to battle in the form of Auger Falls. It’s a great recreation site, with a full golf course, 7 or 8 large waterfalls tumbling off the lip off the Canyon, a few hundred feet up!
We took lots of pictures on the rocks under the falls. While parking the bike, I had a learning experience. When riding a loaded up BMW R1200 GS Adventure Bike, you have to mindful of parking on level ground. Too much slope one way, and the bike will easily tip over to the right. Too much slope the other way, and you will be hard pressed to tilt the bike up to be able to ride it. Also, it could lever over the kickstand and fall over anyway. Picking a bike up from a tilted slope is also much harder than picking it from level ground. While it did not fall, I had to get some help from Clarence to get the bike up. It was a sketchy to say the least.
The other not so admirable reason we had to stop in Twin Falls instead of riding through to Boise was that I was just pooped. There a “health condition” reared it’s ugly head. This related the Mexican food I had back in Manco Colorado. It was great tasting, but obviously something was not quite right. Good thing my kit has a supply of immodium tablets. The very last thing I was up for was another 2 hours into Boise, setting up a tent at 11pm, and then parking myself in the campground bathroom the rest of the night.