Oregon Trip - Day 7 Going Home

We got up early on Sunday morning and started our trip back home. We stopped in Hood River for lunch and some snacks and then in Boise for dinner. When we got to Twin Falls, Idaho the traffic came to a stop suddenly. All we could see was a big plume of smoke in the distance. When we got to drive closer, it was a brush fire right next to the road. Quite scary. Luckily we didn't have to turn back but were able to drive through it all.

When we got closer to Utah border, we saw an amazing lighting storm that seemed to be in the Salt Lake area. Sure enough. Huge rainstorm and lightning and thundering everywhere. Because it was so late at night (past midnight) there were not a lot of cars on the road. But there was a lot of standing water on the road that we had to go through and it totally slowed us down. It was scary at times but we got home safely at 1:30am on Monday morning. That was over 14 hours of driving time and 910 miles in one day.

Next year we fly.


Brush fire by Twin Falls, Idaho.

Thank you Katie for a wonderful week and thank you Ron and Karen for lending your beach house for us to use.