College Number TWO!

Greetings from lovely, and rainy Mountain Home Idaho. We are about 40 minutes south of Boise and this will be our main camp for the next 4 nights! It's a town of 11,000 people and has a Wal Mart, so were ok with it!

The drive today from West Yellowstone was pretty tiring. Rain, sunshine, rain, sunshine, rain.... you get it. It was a 5 hour drive but we managed to make it 6 because of a brief stop, in Pocatello Idaho, home of Idaho State Bengals! University number two, DONE! We got there in the pouring rain, so the visit was short and sweet. A drive through campus, a picture at the stadium, a trip to the bookstore, and out!

Yesterday, we hit Yellowstone. It was truly, not all exciting. Have you been to Banff, then you have been to Yellowstone, but smaller scale. We drove into the park to see Old Faithful, which lasted about 5 minutes after a 1 hour wait. We stopped to let Rexy run around in which she ate a boatload of bison crap. Then she ran through it. That was fun, it was fresh. Then she got to see her first bison, and boy did she NOT like it. She was practically jumping out of the window trying to eat it, as it strolled by the truck. Apparently they have a pretty big problem with wild bison just standing on the road. It actually happened twice to us, we had to stop and wait for the bison to move but they don't. They just stand there. Weird.

I was going to bike back from Yellowstone to the town but I decided not to as the weather was pretty rough. About 6 degrees and pouring rain all day. We finished the night with an Imax show on Yellowstone (which also kind of sucked; I'm starting to think I'm hard to please or something). It was pretty cheesey and dry.

Today I finally did get a bike ride in! As soon as we got to Mountain Home I jumped on the bike and started towards the Air Force Base which is 10 miles outside of the town limits. It wasn't more than 25 minutes until I saw thunderclouds and lightning bolts and decided to head back into town. I think I ended up riding a short 45 minutes and 22 km. Later tonight we tried to find this little lake to go swimming in but got lost in the Idaho back country. I think I'll have to get those directions from Sunny, the KOA guy again tomorrow!

Bright and early in the morning we head into Boise! It is registration, pre race meeting, and bike check day for Leslie and downtown shopping and Boise State University day for me! It should be a early night back at camp as Leslie gets a good sleep for Saturday, which is race day!

Later!

Chad