Just the two of us, we go on an adventure every year, and we're off already on our road trip to various parts of Utah and Colorado this year. We're taking our time and wandering as we wish.
We started Saturday morning in our home town of Ellensburg, WA, and drove to Ontario, OR, where we stayed the night. On the way to Ontario, we took a side-trip into the little town of Baker City somewhere in Eastern Oregon. It's a little town with a feel of what I would call a perfect "Small Town" of America, complete with some fun shops in a well-defined downtown, with a true "Main Street," of course, and a wonderful large center-of-town park, where there is a large playground for children, a bandstand for I presume great summer concerts for the whole town, and even a cute gazebo for whatever people do in gazebos -- get out of the rain?
Today, we drove only 50 miles to the city of Boise, where we went a bit out of the way to a great "World Center for Birds of Prey." It is not only a serious research center but a center for the conservation and rehabilitation of birds of prey. Further, it's the home of the Peregrine Falcon Fund, which protects, educates, and conserves peregrine falcons world-wide. At the end of the over two-hours-stay, Elena has decided that she's going to become a scientist dedicated to these beautiful animals. I would highly recommend that anyone with children around 8 and up swing by if you are passing through the area. It's well worth the drive.
More tomorrow!
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