Day 4:

Hard to believe we drove over 300 miles today, after doing the math and realizing we need an extra day or more miles in a day. 

But it was not all work!  Crossing a particularly beautiful pass, we stopped for a family snowball….augh!!  To view mayhem, click here.

We ended up in Salmon, ID, that evening, about halfway through our destination goal of driving the Salmon River Scenic highway.

 

It’s truly beautiful, but remembering my own childhood, we only occasionally pointed that out to the kids and let them get back to their games.

We ended up in a trailer park (I’m not misnaming RV park) next to a cow field—which Piper loved—

and several good climbing trees and neighbor kids equally feral as mine.

Of all the places we went, this place was simultaneously the friendliest (we stayed up chatting and drinking with neighbors quite late) and most out of our comfort zone (uh, how often do I actually get to share life with people at completely different economic levels and life stories?).  It was both really cool and eye opening.