Every summer we load up the pop-up tent trailer and take a grand vacation to exotic places like the Oregon coast. Or, for variety,
the Washington coast. This summer, we’re thinking of touring our home state. I was telling one of my friends of our plans to see Idaho in all its splendor and she made this awful face and advised me to avoid the nether regions of Idaho i.e. anything south of Boise. “It’s a wasteland,” she said. Neither The Otis or I have had a purely Idaho road trip and it’s hard to know which areas of the state truly are godforsaken wasteland (I find it hard to believe that any of that exists given what we have seen of the state). I’m a little nervous about ending up at an RV park in the middle of some dust bowl with a two-seater outhouse in 110 degree weather. We’re thinking of actually heading out of town, through Montana and down to Yellowstone, the Sawtooths, then back into southern Idaho for some home-state explorations, then north to home —
Mommy Dearest
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BrodH20
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Question: For anyone who’s been in the bottom-half of the state, what stops would you recommend (especially those that are kid- and tent-camper-friendly.