Drive day! Fairly early start. We don’t have to be out until 13:00, but that’s awfully late, so we leave at 10:00. Not in a huge hurry, because we’re only going to Boise, which is only about 110 miles away, but it’s through the twisties, so it will take over two hours, maybe almost three.

The drive goes well, except for my back – when it hurts, it really doesn’t like to drive the truck, so it’s a bit worse for it. Hopefully it will straighten itself out again soon. I wish I knew what magic to do, but all I’ve ever been able to do is wait it out. Eventually I’ll wake up and it will be perfectly fine. Weird.

After setting up camp (when we FINALLY find the KoA – it’s hidden, and they have no signs pointing you to it as EVERY_OTHER_ONE we’ve ever seen has had), we’re off to the bike shops. We hit George’s first, as we did last year, and were reminded (again!) that they’re ok, but not the place we want to be. What was that other one we went to? I Google it, and YES – World Cycle! We arrive and talk to the VERY friendly guy behind the counter, who figures out who we talked to last year – Brett – but he won’t be in until tomorrow. No problem, we’ll be back, but we still stay and chat a while. I like places with friendly, helpful folks!

For breweries, we’d been to the Barrel House before the bike shops (had to have lunch after that drive!), and they had pretty good beer, and good food. I had the Meatloaf Sandwich, which was AWESOME. VERY spicy, and they have some weird sauce for the fries, which was also quite resplendent. Tasty, too! The Bear had the Sins of Our Fathers Imperial Stout by Crooked Fence:

I had the Deschutes Obsidian Stout – Very good (both of them!), and then we split a Three Picket Porter, also very good.

After the bike shop, we swung by Cloud 9 brewery, and these folks have GREAT brews! I had the Salted Caramel Stout, and The Bear had the 9 Grain Porter. Both VERY good! I actually liked the Porter better than the Stout, which was a little on the bitter side.