Day 8 Ontario OR to Boise ID

Day 8
Ontario OR To Boise ID
Miles Ridden 64.4
Climbing 1635 Ft.
Average Speed  15.8
Total Miles 625.6
Miles To Go 3063.8

After seven days of extremely difficult riding, just about everyone's body  is beaten up and aching. I am aching in a very specific and painful way and am looking forward to getting my old saddle that's supposed to arrive in Boise during our stay. My expectation is that it will fix things, hope I'm right.

Today's ride gets us to Boise and the first rest day of the trip. Our motel was about a mile from state line so after seven very difficult days we were finally set to get out of Oregon. We crossed the Snake River into Idaho and took the obligatory pictures.

Oregon was beautiful but tough riding

There must be better water rights for farmers in Idaho than Oregon because immediately  everything was much greener, the farms lost the rundown look common in Oregon and there was obvious prosperity. We rolled through immense but neatly planted fields of potatoes, lavender, mint, sugar beets, turnips as well as the usual corn, soybeans and wheat.

This alpaca was alone in a huge field

Water was being sprayed everywhere

We took a long route around the northern edge of Boise to avoid go through the city. New houses were going up everywhere and Boise seems to be sprawling out and engulfing the nearby farmland. For the first time all trip, we saw a large number of recreational cyclists heading out of town. The ride was short enough to get us into town before the hotel rooms were ready so the entire group stopped at a local brewpub for lunch (but no beer as drinking and riding is ). We made it to a Courtyard by Marriott downtown which was a step up in class over our usual lodgings. Instead of mixing with budget minded tourists and truck drivers this hotel was full of business people in suits which contrasted well with our cycling outfits.

Marv from California on his recumbent (only strange bike)