We awaken and know we are so toasty warm and now we need COFFEE! But not to worry we have our Pixie and Frother, english muffins and butter! We look out the window and see sunshine and snow on the mountains. Nice way to open our eyeballs. What we see is so clear and beautiful but only 13 degrees! We are now officially a poopscicle! Our outlets are frozen but we have room and fresh water. Thank God! The Frontier RV Park is fairly new and has very clean, WARM, showers and bathrooms. So we can shower in comfort before we hit the road. It truly is the little things that make us smile. The doggies loved all the room to run around in before hoping back into the truck AGAIN!
They are so cute and patient. They get their food, water and running around about every two hours. We are uphill again! Hwy 95 up to Boise. It is about a short 5 hour jog for us.
The air is fresh and it really is a beautiful view. We are feeling better and hoping we get to our destination before nightfall. The clean up for travel is so easy. Everything has a place, easy stowing and access even better. My orange chiffonete from H2O at Home just swiped the dirt away.
We know that we can still use our bathroom but we thought the heat of the road and sunshine would melt our poopscicle plug. So, merrily we rolled along. Our first stop was in Oregon just before an Indian Reservation. The dogs are getting used to the snow but our plug did not thaw. We had cheese sandwiches, more water, more cold medicine and nose spray, replenished our kleenex stash. Onward we went listening to our audio book Killing Lincoln!
Poor little truck pulled and pulled and I could hear it saying, “I think I can, I think I can” as we went north nearing the 200,000 mile mark on our 6 cylinder Ford Sportrac! Boy she has worked so gallantly through all our adventures!
We are enjoying our audio book, we keep hoping no more upward hills and hope the plug will thaw! Ok, Boise is north, we are 4500 ft and no thaw. We pass through Jordan Valley and see a sleepy snow-covered town and wonder where the inhabitants are. I know, they are smarter than us, they are in their homes warm and toasty. It gets higher and colder the farther north we go….brrrr
We then realize how lucky we are to see all these wonders of our great country. We live our lives in our own local beauty but then we need to take the road less traveled to experience unexpected wonders. The snow-covered country side appears as a never-ending vastness of color, land morphs, animals venture out and we see a great big sky. We are also free to travel as we want. We are comfy in our truck, the doggies are sleeping and we just enjoy with smiles and kleenex.
we arrive in Eagle, Idaho as the sun is setting and it is a balmy 22 degrees, still freezing! We get a great pull through spot at the High Valley RV park. There is snow on the ground without wind. There are full hookups but the hoses will freeze if left outside and the poopscicle is frozen. Thank God Airstream has generous holding tanks with warming blankets to keep the fresh water flowing.
We get settled and have dinner with my daughter and grandchildren. What a great night except for the cold, cough and sneezes. But family makes everything so much better.
Back to the RV park we settle again for a cozy night in our coach! Hot tea, cookies, cough medicine and kleenex! Oh we can sleep in and not worry about being on the road just yet. Achoo!
Canned Comfort 
This is fun!