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Summer Break Day 2: To Boise

21 June 2023 • 660 km / 410 mi (map)

I’m on my way to Salt Lake City for an important family occasion this weekend. Today’s travels took me to Boise by way of a part of Idaho I had not seen before.

Today’s route started with a part of the Palouse that I was well familiar with between Richland and Clarkston. Along the way, I got to make progress on my Washington state parks project.

Rolling golden wheat and dryland farm hills under a vast blue sky with a band of puffy white clouds along the horizon, with a small cluster of farm buildings, a barn, power lines and a large green tree nestled in the valley.
west of Prescott, Washington
A tall weathered wooden grain elevator with an attached shed stands in dry grassland under a bright blue sky streaked with wispy cirrus clouds, backed by golden rolling hills.
west of Prescott, Washington
A line of rusty yellow open-sided railroad freight cars sits on tracks below a grassy hill, with a green field in the foreground and a vast blue sky filled with wispy cirrus clouds overhead.
west of Waitsburg, Washington
A long, single-story red brick building with “Waitsburg Hardware & Mercantile” painted in white lettering across its upper facade, set against a bright blue sky streaked with wispy cirrus clouds. Along the right edge a vintage sign lists goods like livestock feed, dry goods, sporting goods, electrical and plumbing, and the empty street with a double yellow line runs across the foreground.
Waitsburg, Washington

Once into Idaho, the route along US 95 and Idaho 55 offered lots of scenery but few safe places to stop for photography. Here are a few that represent the area from today:

A large weathered, rust-streaked cylindrical grain silo painted pale green reads “LEWISTON GRAIN GROWERS INC” in dark lettering, with a taller gray concrete grain elevator complex behind it, beneath a bright blue sky with puffy clouds and a dry golden hillside and green trees to the left.
Lapwai, Idaho
A river winds through a canyon of dry, grassy golden-brown hills near Lucile, Idaho, under a bright blue sky dotted with puffy white cumulus clouds. Scattered evergreen trees and shrubs line the riverbank in the foreground.
south of Lucile, Idaho
A rugged, moss-streaked granite outcrop rising among a dense evergreen forest of conifers, set against a deep blue-violet sky north of McCall, Idaho.
north of McCall, Idaho
Richland, Washington, to Boise, Idaho · 660 km / 410 mi
(Mouse over or tap on the markers to see the photos there. Use the button to adjust the map’s position and zoom.)

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