Aug. 6th, 2023

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We got out of the Rocker Inn (I hope never to return) about 9:15 AM and turned south on I-15.

Here was the course for today:



I wanted to do another full photo essay on this, and those people who follow me on Mastodon got some of the photos in sort-of real time, but we were on the road for ten-plus hours, and I am exhausted. I don't have enough stamina to label nearly 100 photos, let alone write the full story about them.

We drove south on I-15, making numerous stops. At one of them, Lisa had another look at the vibration noise coming from the engine. She thinks that it's coming from the line running between the front and rear air conditioning. That line was cut off a while ago, but it appears to be just hanging loose, and at certain engine speeds, it vibrates against the body of the motor, making a terrible racket.

We got off the freeway and went west to Arco, Idaho, which reputedly is the first town to be fully powered by atomic power. Lisa once again hit a museum jackpot, as we stumbled across a small museum in Arco about the submarine service that is normally open only on weekends and with limited hours. We got there just as they were closing, and one of the volunteers reopened the buildings and showed everything to Lisa.

From Arco, we went to the Craters of the Moon National Monument, which are ancient lava beds that trace their ancestry to the same hot spot that currently is Yellowstone National Park. We only went into the visitor's center as we did not have time to tour the rest of the monument, but I know I learned something today.

We then continued southwest and south on US-93 (remember that I said we'd find that road again), through Shoshone, and after refueling at the Pilot on I-84 in Idaho Falls, we fetched up at the Holiday Inn Express.

This is a nice HIX. They gave us a room on the ground floor (quite a relief after the past two days of humping luggage up and down stairs, even though this hotel has an elevator) close to the end of one wing, which made moving into the room very easy. They have a laundry room, which is bigger than any of the other hotels in which we've stayed on this trip (two sets of washers and dryers), so we were able to do laundry. That's good because we were essentially out of clean clothes.

We once again ordered pizza after getting drinks from a nearby mini-market, watched more old TV episodes, and relaxed.

Tomorrow's trip to Elko is much shorter than the almost 400 miles we logged today, so we think we can sleep in a little bit tomorrow morning.

I hope I can somehow go back and tag/caption all of the photos from today, but if past experience is any guide, I suspect I'll fail to do so.

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