Road Trip: The Idaho Countryside

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -800

From Boise, we took ID-55 northward out of the city towards the Sawtooth
Mountains to see the backroads of the state
before heading back to Portland. Boise, like nearly all American cities with
any hope of survival, has a bunch of the dreaded suburbs growing up all around
the city proper, and this is what Eagle, ID is all about. Wide roads for SUVs
(a9050293 - 98), Albertson's with gas stations (a9050296) and surprisingly
heavy traffic, given that downtown was plainly dead. From there, we headed
up into the mountains (a9050299 - 311) that continued the yellow and brown
coloring scheme. One steep mountain pass later, we found ourselves pulling
into Horseshoe Bend, Idaho.