Day 13 Twin Falls to Declo ID 51 Miles 1450 ' climbing

Day 13 July 1 Twin Falls to Declo, ID 51 miles 1500' Climbing

Up at 5  AM, on bikes at 6:30 AM, ride 7 miles, breakfast at Sub Way. Back on the bikes for 44 miles slightly up hill into strong 12 mph head wind following frontage road paralleling Route 84  all the way to Village of the trees RV park near the Snake River.  Rolling farm land, wheat and corn. Below was a photo op crossing the Snake River.

The RV parks do not have enough bandwidth for me to upload Photos and we do not

unhook the pickup from the RV so cannot drive to location that has better WiFi.

Working on a solution.

We continue to be visited by other travelers, some who give us donations.

Yesterday on the way to Twin Falls, on a lonely old route 30 we crossed the paths of two riders who started in Yorktown Virginia and are heading to Portland OR. Pat set them up with his son for a place to stay.

Second from Left is Garrett and Harrison

Garrett and Harrison

Yesterday in Twin Falls RV park, we met Art,  in his 60's who last year with 2 others road across the US on a recumbent bike, covering 4700 miles in 3 months, from Astoria OR and finished in Bar Harbor Maine. He gave us some Halibut and smoked salmon which we cooked tonight.

Note to followers, when I have sufficient bandwidth to upload pictures, I will upload to PHOTO tab, albums for Day 10 through Day 12, June 29, through June 30. Currently we are in Twin Falls Idaho and tomorrow head Declo ID. 

Thanks

Day 9 Arrive at Meridian and Tour VA hospital set up by Jeff Middlemas  Veteran Affairs Police. Pat met Jeff through warmshowers.com. Jeff, a avid cyclist, Air Force veteran, and works at the VA. The Boise VA is an historical site built in 1862, with many of the original buildings remaining. Jeff arranged the tour, arranged for a fishing trip for Dave, On our day off met us at our site with 6+ friends and brought food, barb-b-qed for us, entertained us.  For today, he arranged for us to participate in Boise annual All Veteran Welcome Home event. Finally he rode with us and led us out of town. We owe a lot to Jeff. A lot more to follow about our stay in Boise.

From left, Jeff Middlemas and co worker Scott

Mark Davidson, of Operation HomeFront, 3rd from left. Operation Homefront is in association with wounded warrior project, and helps veterans with financial needs.

Monty, volunteer at Boise VA, gave us a tour.  Monty (navigator submarine service) is a wealth of knowledge on the history of Boise VA, which dated back to 1862 and is an historical site.

 Jeff (standing in the foreground) brings his friends to our site and  feeds us and entertains us.

Thanks to all of Jeff's friends that showed up to visit with us.

Leaving the KOA at Meridian ID on our way to Boise VA All Veterans Home Coming Annual event, and then on to Mountain View ID.

Day 9 Fruitland ID to Meridian ID (near Boise) 60 miles 2000' climbing

Even though this was the easiest route so far, we were all very tired when we arrived at the Meridian KOA RV Park. Temperature hit 100+ today.  Meridian KAO generously provided us a great spot for 2 nights free of charge.   Tom, Pat, Ed, Dave set up tents on the lawn at the site. Not having learned our lesson at a previous RV park, we forgot to ask manager to shut off sprinkler system. 11 PM sprinklers go off and it is a mad dash to drag tents etc out into street!

Leaving Fruitland we got lost for 7 miles before we met Darby, out for a ride while on summer break (  she is assistant principal at Ontario OR HS) who road with us and got us back on track.

We cycled through Idaho farmland, one farm had a herd of buffalo as an added attraction

Jeff Middlemas, who works at the VA hospital in Boise, visited us. He is a cyclist and works par time at Ken's Bicycle Warehouse arranged for the store to check over all our bicycles.

Jeff is also going to have a van pick us up at 12:30, take us to the VA hospital where we will visit with vets.  He has also arranged with some vet friends to take Dave fishing.  

When we leave on Saturday, we are going to participate in a Boise Veterans appreciation event.

Pictures will follow. Also, remember to view our photo albums on the photo tab.

Day 8 Baker OR to Fruitland ID 83 miles 2100 ' climbing

Went from cold and wet to hot with temps near 80

The Ride.....

Day 8 Baker OR to Fruitland ID 83 miles 2100 ' climbing

ONE STATE DOWN! To date 535 total miles, 25,488 total feet of climbing 

From left to right Pat, Jim, Tom, Dale. We crossed the Snake River crossing into Payette Idaho

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Pat gets two  flats today, ed had slit tire yesterday

Cornfields  to Fruitland. As we approached Idaho, we passed fields of corn, onion, radishes, alfalfa, oats. 

Once at Neat Retreat RV Park, Derrick and Christy Vandeberg, owners of Neat Retreat, Hosted us with Barb - b- q hambergers, potato salad, salad, fruit. Ellen, Derrick's mother, made the potato salad, cookies and German chocolate cake for desert.

Tomorrow is 84 Miles to our first stop in Idaho!

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The 6 over 60 team.