What a beautiful state!  Visited Craters of the Moon Monument and National Preserve today.  Great day, cool, sunny not too windy.  Found out talking to a local that idaho is a windy state.  That's great, we plan on golfing two days while staying in the area!  I hate playing in the wind!  Anyway, we had a great day at Craters of the Moon.  It's loaded with caves that we, mostly myself, went into.  I am claustrophobic and it was definitely a challenge for me.  Once I got into the cave, crawling over rocks and keeping myself low, it was exhilarating and fun.  Some of the caves had icy floors, which made the way a bit treacherous, since the rocks were very slippery.  Did not go into the caves that you had to crawl through.  No way I could do that!  We've got tons of pics, some that just show a dot of light that Linda took of me going through the caves she was uncomfortable doing with me.  Those will be posted in the slideshow tomorrow.

Having a blast here in Idaho!

PS  City of Rocks visit is in the slideshow.

I keep getting reminders of the difference between Florida and Idaho.  Sea level in Florida, 6,000 feet above sea level here in Declo, Idaho.  Flat lands in Florida, steep hills in Idaho!  Today, we hiked in City of Rocks.  I knew we were in for a tough hike after fifteen minutes we were still hiking "down" a path.  I counted the steps up as we finished the hike, over 300 steps straight up.  They called that section, the staircase!  Go figure!  Anyway, it was a great day, still cool, in the lower fifties, and very windy.  But the sun shone all day long.  First day in a long time, that the sun was out the entire day.

Lots to do here in South Central Idaho, more than we can do in the week's time we have.  Tomorrow, more hiking in the Craters of the Moon National Park.

Left Coeur d'Alene this morning at 7 AM.  Drove 10 1/2 hours to get to our new site for a week, Delco, Idaho.  Plan on hitting a couple of national parks, golfing, maybe getting on the snake River, which runs right past our RV site, and hopefully a few bike rides and hikes.  Beautiful country on the drive down to south Idaho.    A few pics:

After much discussion amongst ourselves and wiht other campers in the RV park that have made the trip we were planning to Mccall or thought about it, we have decided to skip that part of our trip and stay here a few extra days.  Many things to do here, plus we would love to golf the resort course once again.  More biking to be done as well.  So, if we can stay here a few more days, we'll head to Delco, Idahao in a few days.  More to come.

Went on a long bike ride on the Centennial Trail!!!  All the way out to Higgins Point.  Only a couple of big hills, one was 6% grade over 1/2 mile up.  Nice coming back, but very tough going out.  Had to push Linda to complete it!  All I had to do was promise her breakfast in town on the way home!
Will relax around the RV this afternoon, read a book, enjoy the boats going down the bay, and then maybe hit dinner in town tonight.  Sushi again?

You can actually see our RV from the Centennial Trail across the bay.  Finally a nice day, sunny, with clouds rolling in and rain later.  What a surprise!