{"id":15336,"date":"2014-11-24T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=15336"},"modified":"2014-11-24T19:26:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T01:26:39","slug":"provo-to-pocatello-a-day-with-some-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2014\/11\/provo-to-pocatello-a-day-with-some-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Provo to Pocatello: a day with some surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was up shortly before 5:00 a.m. and the news and weather showed I-15 (highway) dry. It was about 32F (freezing) but Bear and I went for an early walk and the ground and asphalt was dry. I had breakfast, did a bit of work and prepped to leave.<\/p>\n

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The weather had other plans. <\/p>\n

Not just wind and snow, but the on-ramp I was to use was a “sheet of ice” per the news. It was closed briefly for the ice and a resulting accident.<\/p>\n

I worked some more.<\/p>\n

We finally left at shortly before 11:00 a.m. with a revised destination of Pocatello, Idaho.<\/p>\n

From the road:<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t take a photo until we were through Salt Lake City traffic. SLC was not horrible and there was only ONE area of construction – RECORD!! A little wind at the beginning, but thankfully, it calmed before the worst traffic.<\/p>\n

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A little bit of Great Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

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Almost to Idaho…<\/p>\n

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Idaho!<\/p>\n

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Snow near the road…SO pretty.<\/p>\n

About 20 miles before my planned exit, I saw signs for a KOA that hadn’t come up on my search. On a whim, I pulled off and looked it up. It was Lava Hot Springs KOA, about 16 miles from the exit. The online KOA info said it was open all year. I phoned, but got a recording. I decided to go thinking that at the worst it would be a 32 mile trip out of my way.<\/p>\n

It was a 20 mile trip out of my way.<\/p>\n

At about 10 miles, I received a return phone call – only cabins were open at the KOA, not RV spots. I said I only need power, but they said no.<\/p>\n

The road was so beautiful, I almost went all the way just to see the setting, but light was getting low so I turned around and continued to my original destination: Pocatello’s Cowboy Mobile Home and RV Park.<\/p>\n

I’ve stayed in some kind of awful mobile home\/rv combination spots, but this spot is very nice. It is a newer mobile home park with nice wide streets and the rv park part is laid out well also. We are in a very pleasant spot for tonight.<\/p>\n

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Bear, Auggie and I are all well. <\/p>\n

A pot of water is on the stove for spaghetti and sauce is ready to be warmed. I have spicy slaw and bread for garlic bread.<\/p>\n

If the weather cooperates, we’ll head to Dillon, MONTANA!!! in the morning.<\/p>\n

***BONUS – Great cable tv here so…I am ready for some football – Monday night football!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was up shortly before 5:00 a.m. and the news and weather showed I-15 (highway) dry. It was about 32F (freezing) but Bear and I went for an early walk and the ground and asphalt was dry. I had breakfast, did a bit of work and prepped to leave. The weather had other plans. Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-trips"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15342,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15336\/revisions\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}