Boise Idaho to Evanston Wyoming

After a quick cheese omelet at the La Quinta motel in Boise, Idaho, we started earlier today in heavy rain.  We are now 582 miles into our trip and were looking for fair weather after a long, rainy drive yesterday.  Finally, we could literally see light at the end of what seemed like a rain tunnel on the horizon before us amid a wind generator farm. 

The edge of the weather front tormenting us formed a straight line framing the blue sky beyond.  It was a welcome sight.

While helping us empty our home for the trip, our grandkids, Matthew and Andrea, had introduced us to Clementine oranges, and we were thrilled to find them at a Love's Truck Stop already peeled to eat.

The blue skies and clouds only delivered rain in brief intervals as we continued.  In this photo, we are passing what appear to be three grain silos Declo, Idaho, shortly after our first crossing of the Snake River.

Near Tremonton, Utah, the snow-covered mountains, including Mendon Peak, glowed white beneath dark, threatening clouds.

Escaping the rain, we encountered Willard Bay Reservoir.  Though we could only photograph a small portion of it, in the distance beyond it broadened into a large body of water.

In Morgan County, Utah, we grabbed a quick photo of "Devil's Slide" just off the edge of the highway.  This is an unusual geological formation located near the border of Wyoming in northern Utah's Weber Canyon, near the community of Croydon.  Two parallel limestone strata that have tilted to lie vertically protrude 40 feet from the mountainside, descending for hundreds of feet down the mountain, with a 25-foot erosion channel situated between them 

Near Henefer, Utah, close to Salt Lake City, an American flag flies proudly before the backdrop of white clouds and blue sky.

Cows are abundant along this stretch of Interstate-84 in Henefer with their recently born calves.

Turning easterly along Interstate-80, we start to see the red rock bluffs near Coalville, Utah, as we pass through Echo Canyon, part of Utah's famous red-rock country.  The color is caused by iron oxidation-essentially a natural rusting process.

 

In Tremonton, Utah, a small barn with a crooked roof and a white home caught our attention.

We arrived in Wyoming at 2:32 pm, crossing parts of three states today.  It feels like progress at 951 miles from Sedro Woolley, and not quite one-third of the trip.

We checked into a Best Western motel in Evanston, Wyoming, tonight, ate a spaghetti dinner in their on-site restaurant, and saw taxidermied animals in their lobby of local wildlife that were so expertly created it seemed like the live animals were present.  Outside, a fountain was decorated with an elk statue.