Again a cold start but not for long.
After the days in parks with the mountains, huge forests, deep blue lakes and geysers I left this
peaceful and serene area doing one last view back. The Tetons, blue sky, sunshine and autumn
colours. What a good-bye !
Passing through Jackson Hole ( hole being an old trapper name for valley ) the mountains petered
slowly out and the landscape changed to rolling hills with huge plains where either wheat was grown
or cattle farming been done.
A drive about 3 hours long was like that farm land and cattle ranches and once in a while a small village.
Very often you only knew that somewhere people must be living because their letterbox was right at the
etch of the road. The temperature had in the meantime changed to a quite warm 82 F. Summer ? !
Deliberately I had chosen to drive via small country roads where I was very often alone on the road and
only occasionally a pick-up of a local farmer (?) was passing or overtaking me. These people know their
road !
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere I passed the stateline between Wyoming and Idaho and reached
at one point in time a mining area. Potash is been mined near Soda Springs. The name of this town made
me curious and yes they have a spring. And what a spring. Right in the middle of the town a geyser
erupts every hour on the hour.
Heading on I reached after a few miles the lovely little city called Lava Hot Springs where a nice outside
pool area was inviting for a swim in the nice warm waters. Several hotels and motels are catering for the
guests. The city lies in a very green valley with lots of trees and with the State Road 30 half way up the hill.
Fromm here Pocatello, my todays destination, was only a few miles away
Having stayed for the last 6 nights always in very rustic lodgings my tonights motel was quite a change.
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