Hail

This wasn't a real long day, but ended up being kind of rough. Started out at 9:20 after finishing off the peanut butter and bananas, with dry bread and cherries for breakfast. The leftovers from last night. The hill started right out of Mountain Home on US20, and didn't really stop until we reached Fairfield, at 5100 feet, up from 3100 this morning. With ups and downs in between. 50 miles, but to top it off we hit a storm just after a big hill. Laura had a minor meltdown at the base of the hill, just from looking up at what we had to climb, so at 4mph we made it up the hill. The temp dropped, so we put on everything we had. Then the rain started, then the snow pellets, more rain, then hail, which hurts. Laura gets to put her head in her lap for protection, I get to look up into it and get hammered. But it only lasted awhile, and other than getting soaked, there was no permanent damage.
We can't always pick our overnights, it depends on mileage, so we stopped in this town we otherwise would have just been irritated at the speed reduction on the highway. The Prarie Motel is nice, she made fresh choc chip cookies for us. Dinner at the Iron Mountain Cafe was tasty, the decor deserves mention. You walk in to two stuffed bears, then go into the main room, which we found out had been moved over as addition. They moved it on logs, the old fashioned way. The curtains are pink, the music is country, there are Indian pics and moccaisons on the walls, and a big wall air conditioner adds atmosphere. The tablecloths are green plastic , with a purple one thrown in for contrast. The real highlight is the red and black chairs to sit in, red velvet no less. They roll like office chairs, and squeak like a box spring being used by a honeymoon couple. The old boy next to us liked to tap his knee to the music, pretty much causing non stop squeaking. But the scotch was 2.75 per, and the spaghetti was good.
Tomorrow we are off to Bellevue or Hailey, home of Bruce and Demi and Ashton. No pics tonight because I couldn't use my computer with the pics in it, had to come into the lobby to use theirs. Thank you Tim for all the work on the blog, and Judy for keeping a map up. My helmet is not crooked.