Road Trip - Day 13

Home again, home again. Today we have traveled home. We left arid Ontario, Oregon and drove through arid Idaho to get home to arid Utah. We took a short scenic drive along the Snake River, which was pretty arid but did have a stretch where lots of springs come out of the cliffs above the river. When we got back to Utah, Orland was pretty overwhelmed and dismayed by how arid and unattractive it is here. It will take some time to adjust, but I think he will feel better just in time to go spend 10 days in Montana, where it is not so arid. We'll help him make the adjustment again just in time to go to Wyoming for three days. It's OK, it's arid in Wyoming, too, so he won't have to make any adjustment when we come back.


Here is a picture of one of the springs along the Snake River.

It is always a little worrisome coming back home because not only is it the part of the trip where the vacation ends, it's the part of the trip where you find out what went wrong while you were gone. Did something die, run off, break, etc? In this case, a few plants did die, but they were no big deal. A few were wilted because I need to adjust their timer. The lawn is pretty dry because I forgot to set the timer back to the right number of minutes after the yard was sprayed. It will green up quickly now that I have reset that controller. Tomorrow I will check the two vegetable gardens. Then we'll spend the next week getting ready to do it all again.

We will not be posting every day now that we are back home, but we will post when we have something interesting happen. It may not be interesting to anyone else, but it will be interesting to us. That's what it's all about, right?