Idaho at Last!

We had a rough start this morning --or should I say NON-start? We had the jacks up, the slides in, the satellites dish down and were ready to go. I went outside to do my usual check of the signal and brake lights while Forry started Auntie Violet. Only she didn't start! It seemed a bit strange as we had had power to bring the slides in and the jacks up...?


Forry put the charger on. We'd get a brief jolt of juice, but not enough to turn the engine over. Checked the manual; couldn't figure it out. Called Jim, the foreman at Uhlmann's RV, he suggested just turning everything off for a bit and then trying to restart it. Nothing! Beginning to wonder if we were going to have to be towed to --- where? Snowville is a long way from ANYWHERE!


Finally Forry noticed that the bolts on the battery terminals appeared to be loose. He tightened three loose ones and VOILA, Auntie Violet started right up!


We followed Interstate 84 north and west into Idaho. We passed over the flooding Snake River several times:



It was nice to descend out of the mountain valleys and high plateaus into some lower altitudes and begin to see some farmland.

We stopped at the Flying J just outside of Boise. Diesel is higher here in Idaho. We filled with 40.508 gallons at $4.159 per gallon. That's eight cents a gallon more than when we filled in Utah.

We are settled in for the next couple of nights at Garrity RV Camp in Nampa. We've got some errands to run tomorrow and then will meet up with Daughter Dawn's in-laws at Sizzler in the evening for dinner.