there's only one way to get there and back.
Hwy. 30 to interstate 15.
basically.
from here over the mountain down through Lava Hot springs then straight over to Mc Cammon to catch I-15 north.
it's about 75 miles.
in the summer i can take dirt to Idaho Falls in about the same amount of time as it takes to get to Pokie,,, in the winter it's over 2 hours to I.F. on the freeway if it's clear.
fiver, do you find that, I dunno, the insularity of where you live, creates a distorted world view? I watch very little TV and bitch about it all the time, I've turned off the news and sports. We live on a lane and a half wide town road that runs 3.2 miles between two County Roads. There are three towns each about 15 miles away, in a triangle, the largest is our County seat with 5,000 people, many of whom I disagree with. There are a little over 11,000 people in our County and the population has been in decline since 1911. We see half a dozen vehicles in a day almost all known to us. Then, I went on vacation to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Frankly, I couldn't wait to get home. It's a freak show out there, a zoo, and in Winter that's place old farts go in Winter. In a few weeks the Spring Break Berserkers will arrive, and it will get worse.
I occasionally drive through our own little slice of bedlam, Wisconsin Dells, and Fort Walton Beach and Destin are similar, only bigger.
Anyway, I now understand why TV commercials are the way the are. The demographic foolishly spending money on crap is their target audience and the marketing people are so damned afraid of offending any little fringe group. The world away from my little rural universe is populated by whack-a-doodles with 2" long fake nails, fake eye lashes, cottage cheese butts at least an axe handle wide, mincing along on goofy shoes.
Our remoteness and lack of attractions and services is delaying the invasion of the riff raff long enough for me to eke out the remainder of my years.
Isolation can be a good thing.
