Idaho ... I think

I'm having so much trouble locating accessable WiFi that this might be the last post til we get to VA at my sister's.  I'm in McD's right now (Wed, May 20) and therefore do not have my maps and notes with me.

We arrived at the American Falls view point to find that these falls are now behind the dam which had been built after the 1919 drought.  We were also seeing many windmills across the ridges of the mountains.

We stopped at Register Rock which is in a wayside park and enclosed in a pavilion with a chain link fence around it to protect it from vandals.  Even though we wanted to take the City of Rocks trail around Burley, we had to pass it up because of the heavy rain and the road conditions.

The city of Twin Falls was a mess of streets to try to navigate to find what we had come to see and the GPS was no help because we didn’t have a street address for the viewpoint park and, without internet service, I couldn’t find it.

We finally got directions to the Twin Falls Park and Dam; then a few streets away was the Shoshone Falls Park which was, again, a steep winding road down and back.  We also saw many streamlet falls alongside the main road.

Several times we saw signs for a snow zone and chain up areas along I-84 while travelling through the state.  When we ascended the road to the view of the Hagerman Fossil Beds, we could also see the Oregon Trail wagon ruts along the lower levels.  The park rangers were getting set up to have some school kids ‘dig’ for fossils.  All the real fossils are in the mountains across the valley and in the museums.