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Bob's flight is on time, and I meet him in Omaha as planned. (amazing...) Before heading west, we have to stop for some GeoCaching at the local Botanical Garden. We successfully locate the cache full of random stuff. (It seems to be an aquired taste, but perhaps I'm catching cache fever.) Then we hit the road in earnest, and take in a long day. As we were doing a bit of night driving, we chose to stay on the interstate. Blue roads at night are great if you're driving a hummer and hoping for fresh road-kill for dinner. Since we didn't really like the idea of peeling an elk out of the grill, we stuck with the semi's . As we get into Idaho, we cruise through Crater's of the Moon, which is an awesome reminder of the way things were a few millenia ago. Never fear, the whole damned place could blow again at any time.

We make it to the Sawtooths in two days, and spend the night in the campground at Redfish Lake. There's a great lodge there (circa 1929), and since we were roughing it, we ate dinner at the bar instead of at a table. The buff burgers are excellent...

Next day we take a boat to the far end of the lake. It's five miles, and we figured a 20-minute cruise, but the 20-year old "skippers" seem to think the throttle has only two positions, "stop" and "go like hell", so we got there in about 7 minutes.