Exploring Boise Area-The Good, Bad, and The Not So Appealing.

In the spirit of Lewis and Clark, Ponce de Leon (fountain of youth, why or why couldn't he have found that!), and Daniel Boone, we got our poor, confused, disoriented selves out of the apartment and into the world of Boise!

First, the Lucky Peak Dam Rooster Tail. It's job is to control the water flow from Lucky Peak Lake into the Boise river. It is an impressive site.

Due to the amount of runoff expected from this year's unusual amount of snow, more water has been released into the Boise river, to make room for that runoff into the reservoir. This has caused flooding of the Boise river, as a result, tubing activities downstream are delayed. Oh no!

I will get pics later of the Lucky Peak State Park beach, which looks really nice, when I go up there on a "toasty" day (as they say here), for a swim.

On to our first Boise hike. Camelback Park.

 This is MUCH steeper than it looks. I'd wished we'd brought a defibrillator.

Downtown Boise from the top of the trail. There are distant mountains to the right, which are not visible here.

The Next Six Exits

We have arrived at the promised land! Don in Budget truck, Boise.


     Once upon a time, or as much as Don and I have moved since married in 2005, once, twice, thrice, fourth, and now fifth upon a time, we headed to Boise, Idaho to become "tubers!" Why? Because upon retiring a tad early, we discovered condo living was not for us. Usually it's the other way around, live in a house, retire, house is too much work, move to a condo. However, sometimes life needs to be done out of order, according to, in my case, the directives of ADD-ism.
     Puttering is essential to retirement, and it's hard to putter in a condo. I must putter in a garden and a yard, Don must putter in a garage. However, finding a house in the Denver area under 200,000. is no longer possible. After a year or two of research, mostly our faces buried in our Ipads, and a few exploratory trips, we discovered the Boise metro area; it is affordable, has a similar climate to the Denver area, but is appealingly smaller, population 620,000 vs Denver metro area, 2.8 million. It was very hard that first day on the road, we were tired from packing and closing on the condo. We were sad to drive away from friends, family, and a place we'd lived for 36 years, but excited at the looking forward to a new adventure!

Kit finally settled in. Hey! We didnt' name her. It's the one she came with. Unoriginal but fitting.