What do you do when it's the 10th of October and it's almost Shanna's birthday? Well I just took a step outside-it's lightly raining, the moon is almost full, but it's not very bright due to the thick layer of clouds in front of it. I'm contemplating what to write about, thinking back on what I did over the weekend.
I haven't blogged since Thursday, it's Monday. We hit the open road on Friday with intention of making it to a cluster of 3 hot springs in Idaho. It was raining on Friday and we suspected that the weekend would have similar weather so we decided to get out of town. We opted to take the Subaru instead of the hippie van since it had been freezing at night and it would be cold sleeping in the van. So we took off in the Subaru with intentions of finding a room in Idaho. However, after 3 hours on the road, the Subaru started smoking. I thought it was normal. We stopped in Dillon, MT to stretch our legs, eat a snack, change the baby. We were in a parking lot and I overheard a couple giggling as they passed about the smoke coming from our car. I remembered that morning hearing the mechanic saying that the car would smoke due to the stuff burning up after the flush they performed. So we ventured on. But not for too much further. We ended up in an RV park off the interstate waiting for AAA's tow guy to show up. Which he did, promptly and courteously. Thanks AAA. And towed us back to Bozeman, the closest Subaru shop. So Friday night we ended up back at home. But not without a soak! We went to a pool down the road and woke up bright and early and hit the open road...again.
Day 2-driving past Dillon in the van and it started making funny noises. I thought we were getting trapped there intentionally somehow. But after we let the van rest for a few, she was back up and ready to roll. So we ventured on and landed in Salmon, ID. Throughout the drive I saw 3 ravens. 3 ravens on a fence. 3 ravens soaring. I kept thinking of you Shanna but I wasn't quite sure the significance, however, the fact that I kept seeing 3 together, felt important. Interesting enough, on the ride home, I kept seeing 2 ravens.
We checked into a nice little motel in Salmon, right on the fast flowing, high tide river. So did all the local high school homecoming kids. It took me a minute to figure out how all the restaurants in this tiny little town were booming. We got a great night sleep and woke up early to hit the road again. Destination-Goldberg. Goldberg is a magnificent hot spring that is reached by hiking 3 miles back into a valley. And up there, high in the side of a mountain, is a waterfall flowing with hot natural spring water that pools and forms several layers of pools, perfect for soaking in. So we trekked our way up there and spent the day sitting in hot pools with a bunch of random naked people. Dan and I chose to wear our suits, Jude went au-naturale with the rest of them. It was a wonderful day. Rejuvenating, relaxing. It felt great to be outside with the mountains, and huge rocks, sunshine, water, my family. We came home late Sunday night, happy to crash into our bed after a long ride in the car.
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