Salt Lake City to Boise - 558 miles

Quite a long day today, but had a fabulous time & made a few visits to places & museums off the main road.

We left Salt Lake City & all the traffic & headed towards Cheyenne. Once again it was thru' mountainous areas, big winding roads, superb on a bike!, but cold. Ended up having to stop & put on our overjackets - both of us were way too cold.

Could see a lot of areas (& incredibly flash homes) just out of Salt Lake City that are obviously used by those who choose to ski. Just prior to Ogden there was a beautiful lake that wound around, so pretty and peaceful.

We also watched a very long train (it seemed to go on forever) and actually throughout the day probably saw 6-7 trains with endless numbers of carriages.

At the Wyoming border we zapped across the road used by trucks to take a quick photo - hence the reason Ken is still on the bike. Wyoming means long flat plains, & that's a pretty good description for a good part of it.

We turned off the main highway to go to Kemmerer, we had seen that there was a museum there, & it was fascinating. One of the best we have seen. (The scary thing is that there were so many items on display that both Ken & I are very familiar with).

We continued on, thru Cokeville and then on to the next state - Idaho. The state has lots of rolling plains, but also mountain areas. At Montipelier we refuelled, had a quick lunch, & on our way out of town saw a large carving of wagon, oxen, and the people (see photo), this was The National Oregon/California Trail Centre. It looked too good to ignore, so off the bike again, & in we went. Fabulous! They also had a quilting display, so took some additional photo's for Mum.

Off again, thru the towns of Bennington, Georgetown & Hot Springs. Lots of things to photograph, but no time and too much traffic to allow it easily.

The USA has an amazing road system, & when road works are being done, as a rule it is not a mile or two, it is anything from 15-20 miles, with very little inconvenience to motorists. This was again the case today, lots of duplicate highways being made, or bitumen being relaid. We (Australia) could learn a lot.

The weather was kind, although the temp got to 100F (showed about 4 degrees higher on the town sign) but it felt quite cool, not really a problem at all. There was also cloud cover on & off, this made a big difference, & makes great patterns on the hills.

Once we passed by the towns of Twin Falls & American Falls (they were off the highway) we continued till we reached Boise, around about 6pm. Again we did a quick tour of the city, then decided we had had enough & headed for the nearest accomodation which turned out to be Holiday Inn. Very nice, had a lovely meal, & the room is great.

Leaving Salt Lake City

Beautiful Lake (prior to Ogden turnoff)

Rocks abound again Welcome to Wyoming Checking out our first museum Welcome to Idaho The display outside The National Oregon/California Trail Centre (life size) The Bears welcome us to Georgetown