Day 12 - Twin Falls to Burley, ID

Another beautiful day with all blue skies and no clouds. The temperatures are continuing to rise. It was in the 70's when Anne and Michael left on the tandem at 9:00; whereas, it was in the 60's when Michael left the day before. The heat is following us as it is over 100 in Mountain Home where we were yesterday.

The first thing we did was take a detour off the scheduled route to see the Shoshone Falls just outside of Twin Falls. In this case, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a panoramic view.

The Shoshone Falls is a part of the Snake River Gorge.

After taking in the gorgeous views, we had fun climbing back out of the gorge up the 3 miles of 6-8% grades. Anne did a great job of stoking us up the climb.

Then, we headed for Burley our next overnight stop. We passed many seas of wheat like the picture shows

here and seas of lavender and sugar beets. Yesterday, you heard about Holstein's standing side by side for ~900' to feed. Below, you can see how much it takes feed the thousands of  livestock we saw. Now, that's a lot of hay!

Now, that the Garmin Edge 800 and compact crank working, I can say the Garmin greatly reduces mental stress of staying on course compared to having to read cue sheets. The compact crank does the same but for physical stress. If you ever consider a long tour, put these in your budget,.

The accommodations continue to be superb; the Best Western in Burley, ID.

Now, it is 97 in Burley!

Tomorrow, it is on to Pocatello, ID.