{"id":4646,"date":"2018-08-11T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2018-08-11T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T18:21:27","slug":"boise-freak-alley-warhawk-museum-snake-river-and-vicinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2018\/08\/11\/boise-freak-alley-warhawk-museum-snake-river-and-vicinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Boise, Freak Alley, Warhawk Museum, Snake River and Vicinity."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We arrived in Caldwell, Idaho, in the early afternoon Sunday and got the couch set up to live in. \u00a0 It was over 100 when we got there and it got hotter as it got later.\u00a0\u00a0 We drove \"\"<\/a>over to Susan and Jeff’s house in the late afternoon and had a great dinner with the family.<\/p>\n

Monday morning I booked campsites for Winnemucca,\u00a0 Carson City, and Lone Pine,\u00a0 for the drive home.\u00a0\u00a0 Still need to make a rez for somewhere near the Cajon Junction, but I never did make one as we just wanted to get home and not cook another day in the desert.<\/p>\n

We then drove over to see Jeff’s construction site.\u00a0 It was a huge project with 22 large apartment buildings, 290 units, way larger than what I was thinking.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We went out for burgers at a place called Famous Dave’s.\u00a0 I had never heard of him, so \"\"<\/a>maybe he isn’t as famous as he thinks.\u00a0\u00a0 After lunch we dropped Jeff at his \"\"<\/a>office and we headed over to the capitol building, which was gorgeous inside with all the white marble, then the Old Penitentiary and Botanical Gardens.<\/p>\n

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The riverfront park or Boise Greenspace,\u00a0 as it is called here, is pretty incredible with its 25 or so miles of pathways for walkers and bikers next to the Snake River.\u00a0 There were lots of folks in rafts and tubes floating by while we were there.<\/p>\n

After hanging in the shade of the Greenspace for a while, I wanted to drive down to the basalt cliffs southwest of town, but I missed the turn and stumbled on a very large earthen dam on the Snake River just a few miles from Boise before we could find a place to make a U-Turn.\u00a0 It was complete with a hydroelectric power station.\u00a0 We drove over the top to the boat launch area.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a big lake with lots of power boats pulling kids on rafts and tubes at high speed.<\/p>\n

On the way up to the top of the dam, we spied a large cove at the bottom with a big water jet spraying up maybe 50 feet in the air and lots of people all around on kayaks, rafts and tubes trying to keep cool in the high heat of the afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 We drove down there, but ended up turning around as all the signs said no pets allowed.\u00a0\u00a0 As we got close to the kiosk at the gate, one of the signs even said no pets allowed in the car either.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So we turned around and drove back toward the cliffs \"\"<\/a>I had come to see in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just prior to the turnoff for the cliffs, I spotted a small dam, so I stopped to take a look at it.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy wouldn’t get out of the car it was so toasty outside.\u00a0 She stayed in the air conditioning and I walked over to it in the sweltering heat.<\/p>\n

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We also found a diversionary dam further back the way we came.\u00a0\u00a0 It appears to take some of the water from downstream of the dam and divert it into irrigation canals.\u00a0\u00a0 We snapped a few pics of the basalt cliffs and headed \"\"<\/a>back into town to find Freak Alley.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy told me it was closed today, but that sounded a bit odd to me.\u00a0 How would they close an alley?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It turned out to be one of the most interesting places in Boise. \u00a0 What Kathy had read was closed was a place \"\"<\/a>called Freak Alley Gallery, a store next to one of the entrances to the alley.<\/p>\n

It was a great place to spend twenty minutes walking thru and looking at all \"\"<\/a>the crazy paintings on the building walls.\u00a0 There are some excellent artists’ paintings there.\u00a0 The alley is about two blocks long.\u00a0 I am sure my pictures won’t do it justice, but if you are ever in Boise, it’s a must see.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>On Tuesday I headed out alone to see\u00a0 the Warhawk Museum.\u00a0\u00a0 On the way I mapped out a much needed car wash for the toad.\u00a0\u00a0 To my surprise, it took a long time to find an actual full-service car wash.\u00a0\u00a0 Each “full-service” spot I drove to was self service, but included some free time on the vacuums. Appears that is what they call “full service” here in Idaho.\u00a0\u00a0 I had almost given up when I happened to drive past what looked like a regular car wash.\u00a0\u00a0 Pulled in and it was!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They did a great job getting all the dead bugs off the front of the car.\u00a0\u00a0 Now that I think of it,\u00a0 we hadn’t washed it since leaving home. \u00a0\u00a0 The interesting part of the car wash was the gas station, regular gas was $3.35 a gallon and next door to them regular gas was $2.91.\u00a0 That’s a pretty large difference for two name brand stations next to each other.<\/p>\n

BTW, \u00a0 I wanted a full-service place since it was about 106 degrees outside.<\/p>\n

The Warhawk Museum is a small place crammed full of stuff from WWII.\u00a0 Planes, vehicles and small vignettes with personal stories of GI’s.\u00a0 The most amazing thing I saw in the \"\"<\/a>museum was a glider from the D Day invasion force.\u00a0 I didn’t know any had survived, and from the looks of this one, it may be the only one.\u00a0 It was in pretty bad shape but really gave you a sense of how small and vulnerable to gunfire they were.<\/p>\n

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Sure hope it’s a lot cooler back in San Diego as we should be there in less than a week!\u00a0 (It wasn’t)<\/p>\n

Heading for Winnemucca (the armpit of hell it turns out) in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We arrived in Caldwell, Idaho, in the early afternoon Sunday and got the couch set up to live in. \u00a0 It was over 100 when we got there and it got hotter as it got later.\u00a0\u00a0 We drove over to Susan and Jeff’s house in the late afternoon and had a great dinner with the … <\/p>\n

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