Day 37 ..Truck stop...Elko , Nevada

Morning started in Idaho Falls. On Chris's recommendation we had coffee and Muffin at Villa Cafe on Park Street in down town. It was excellent and we found out the cafe is voted the best cafe in Idaho. Since we were there, we looked around and found this interesting waterfall right i n the down town. Idaho falls is a Small town but seem to have an nice family friendly down town.

Water Fall and the temple in the down town Idaho Falls.


Then we drove to Crater of the Moons National Park. It is 11,000 square miles of volcanic lava eruptions complete with lave tubes, caves, cinder cones, rope lavas and big blobs of lave and lava in all sizes and shapes. It turns out there have been eight eruptions in last 12,000 years , last one being 2000 years ago. Few facts: 1) Apollo Astronauts trained here for the moon mission. 2) It is the biggest lava flow sight on the continents in the world. ( I think , they are excluding Hawaii) . It is the most accessible lave field. 3) There has been eruptions every 2000 years and , the hot spot in Yellow Stone is ready to erupt any time.


Lava cinder cone.
Life is beginning to take hold after 2000 years.

In the afternoon, we drove to Twin falls, Idaho on the way to our tonight's stop , Elko. Twin Falls turned out to be an hidden gem. The Shashone water fall is very pretty and they make sure you know that it is 50 feet higher than Niagara Falls. The bridge on the Snake River is very impressive too. The canyon has volcanic origin from 12,000 years ago.


Bridge on Snake River

Shashone Falls

We are at the truck stop now. Nothing special except that a Tostada Pizza, so filling that we could not even finish a small one. ( This was at Pizza Barn). Question for tonight is : Do we drive straight home or stop at Tahoe????

Good night...



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