This is how the Gem State welcomed me Sunday. I guess I hit the border at around 12:30 p.m., in what might have been my worst pass-crossing experience of the winter of 2007-2008. That's right, on Mother's Day.
Granted, it was a lot nicer about 100 miles after the pass. I traveled down U.S. Highway 93 for all but about seven miles of the drive, taking me through Salmon, Idaho, the birthplace of Sakajawea, and Arco, Idaho, the first community in the world to be powered by nuclear energy. The wind helped me get decent gas mileage for the first half of the journey, but at times it threatened to knock me off the road, a scary thought considering how close the road ran to the Salmon River.
Though I stopped to take some pictures, I also practiced an art form that I assume others have pioneered: drive-by photography. It's a lot like a drive by shooting, but instead you're shooting pictures. Some of these pictures might give you an idea of what I saw on the trip. Others just prove how many bugs met their demise on my windshield.
I arrived at Brad's house at about 6:30 p.m. Brad and Jodi's daughter was visiting from Oregon for Mother's Day and had made sushi for dinner, which was a welcome way to break my day-long diet of gas station hot dogs and Red Bull. We chatted for a little bit about UM professors we both know before I retired to my room to unpack. I'm still not completely done, but I've got most of my things in places I can find them.
Today began my first day as a reporter at the Times-News. I followed Brad to the newsroom and was inundated with introductions to staff, computer systems and basic protocol. I'm sure my co-workers will get fed up with all my questions by Wednesday afternoon, which gives me about a day and a half more to make sure I get in some good ones.
Following work, I drove around town a bit and got lost a couple of times (I'd like to say it was on purpose, but you'd all know the truth). Then I went for a walk around Brad's neighborhood, which borders the Snake River Canyon:
It's the one Evel Knievel tried to jump back in 1974. You can still see his launch ramp on the rim.
That's all for now. I'll link to my stories as soon as they're posted on the Time-News site. Hope all is well. Leave comments so I feel cool.
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3 comments:
Beautiful photos -- but watch your driving!
I take photos while driving too... definitely can be kind of distracting though. I ended up going through Twin Falls last Thursday on the way back but I went over 15 instead of 93, they had a copy of the newspaper in the lobby but I forgot to take one. Sucks that it's still snowing in Montana.
it was 97 here on Friday.
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