Idaho, huh?

So, Idaho's a fun place. Sorta.

As we left Portland yesterday morning, we were in denial that Oregon would soon be gone. Within 30 minutes of leaving Allie and Aaron's house, we stopped at Multnomah Falls. Also, as you may have noticed on Facebook, we have a little travel buddy with us now, Bart the Adventure Beaver. Bart was a huge fan of the falls, as most usually are. Not even five minutes away from the falls, we pulled over to a fish hatchery... Check out what we saw! Crazy-huge Sturgeon! (see pic below with Bart).

After a good pep talk, we finally decided it was time to focus and make it to our first destination: Twin Falls, Idaho. We passed through a few noteworthy eastern Oregon cities, such as Pendleton, La Grande, and... Well, that's about it. Not much happened other than almost running out of gas (because Keith misread the miles on a sign), almost hitting an old lady with our car, and spending way too much time and math thinking about how good of mileage our car was getting.

Then, Idaho.

Fields of yellow-ish brown, flat landscapes, straight highways, the occasional cow. Really makes me wonder why people would live anywhere other than Boise (fun fact: Boise is the largest city between Salt Lake City and Portland, at around 215,000 peeps).

When we got to Twin Falls, where Keith's buddy Heath and his wife live, we went to Gertie's Brick Oven Cookery, where they basically make every pizza combination imaginable, walk around to your table and offer you a slice, and all you have to do is sit there, eat loads, and then eat more loads. They also had dessert pizza, which was hard to say no, so, I didn't... And I think I tried ten different dessert slices alone. After our pizza coma had commenced, we went back to Heath and Casey's, watched some Parks and Rec, and slept on the most comfortable air mattress ever (however, we've been sleeping on the floor for a month, so our standards are pretty low).

Fun facts about Idaho:
It's pretty flat in Southern Idaho.
Twin Falls is located right next to a decently sized canyon, and you can base jump off the bridge without a permit.
The first characters on car plates indicate which county the car was registered.
Boise is really the only noteworthy city.
You can drive to a lot of fun places from Southern Idaho: Vegas, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons. Which makes it really easy to not stay in Idaho.
Idaho is really tall.
That's about it.

Tonight we're heading to City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rock State Park in the south eastern corner of Idaho. We'll be staying there for a couple nights, then heading to Orem, UT to see Jeff and Rebecca!

If you would like to see more pics from our trip, check out my Facebook! I'll be adding them soon. Also, for more fun updates and such, be sure to check out the tag #oregon2texas on Facebook and Instagram. Yay, hashtags! 

America!