Meanderings Of An Abject Fool

Late to bed early to rise makes a man or at least me cranky. I slept in car as it was raining and didn’t want to take extra time for tent drying. Good thing bout car camping is everything set up to leave early. I left at approximately 4 in the am.

I start driving and on breaks start looking more into the Niagara of west and get less and less enthusiastic. I get campground paranoia.There are very few and by that I mean none within hour’s drive so I’m thinking to do what only a guy with no schedule can do change it.

Not wanting to drive eight hours I set up dyrt app for a stop in middle. The problem arouse when no matter how I put it in I ended at same campsite on Antelope island. It was lovely but I wanted something new instead I drove all day. Plenty to see.

When I was a child next neighbor liked to see what she could get away with instead of ring doorbell and run she’d ring and see what she could get away with. She went from door to door with me in tow asking for donations to visit Idaho “it’s the potato state”. Her nefarious plan never came about but I was close to the Idaho potato museum so why not.

Left there and found next stop craters of the moon monument. Large black lava fields that look very moonish.

Set up camp met my neighbors. At theses smaller stops the folk are generally and genuinely more civil decent just extremely kind. Joy and Tim were kind enough to pull out maps I gave general direction the told me stop at sawtooth and hells canyon on way to Washington state and the cascades. It meets itinerary perfectly. Thinks guys you’re extremely groovy. Hike tomorrow leave day after.