Well I Have Definitely Never Been Here Before!

Another great day today! We left Pocatello this morning and headed west into no-mans land. The roads are great, and there is little traffic. There were a few trucks hauling sugar beets (or at least we think that is what they were hauling.) A gaggle of bikers passed us, all on BMWs. We concluded that it would be a very boring trip on a bike since there are few corners and lots of bugs.

The land is very brown anywhere they are not pouring water on it and very flat for a mountainous area. The road seems to follow flat lakebeds between the mountains, then pops up over a pass to drop into the next valley. We left the I-84 at Twin Falls to go south to the I-80. In doing so we crossed the Snake River canyon, a very impressive sight. Murray, unlike my dad during the trips of my childhood, stops at scenic pull-outs. I don't know why anyone would want to jump that canyon on a motor cycle!

The scenery got drier and rockier and flatter the higher we climbed. Murray had his afternoon snooze, and I listened to songs on my phone. I think my singing (that is what I call it; Murray might disagree) woke him but just in time to come down into a very large, flat lakebed. On more than one occasion on this trip Murray has made a comment along the lines of, "I wonder were everyone is? Oh, I bet they are at work!" or "Well, I bet they are just taking attendance about now, huh?"

In the afternoon, Murray asked where my little computer was. He thought it would be a good idea to turn the road math we did yesterday into a spreadsheet today. For about an hour we created a spread sheet to assist in the design of the electric commuter car. We confirmed the road math from the day before and then added more new features like automatically calculating the weight of the battery and the number of cells required. I just love it when he refines my rough concepts!

We had a great chicken dinner at the Circus Circus casino in Reno tonight and stopped at Walmart to get some fruit, cereal and milk, and drinks to fill our little fridge. The races start at 8:00 tomorrow morning, and I am very excited. The Rare Bear is back this year along with many Mustangs and a few Sea Fury's. I guess I should publish this and get some sleep now. Have fun at work tomorrow! I won't be thinking of you, but don't take it personally.