In keeping with the Idaho nugget

In Montana

This summer we did not make it out for our many planned-in-our-head vacations.  So much of day-to-day life got in our way.  We were to take my mom back home to Texas as the end of her visit here, but she nixed that one. No amount of wearing her down on letting go of her fear of life she operates on worked.

Of course, then money and time then became obstacles we could not jump.  The painting of our house:  we live in the Seattle area where painting a house in sunny, dry weather has a small window.  Very much so this past "summer."

As I write, our house had been completely primed (a blinding white on a sunny day), and the rotten wood replaced.   Big kuddos to my husband for all of it.  I helped primed but he did 90 percent of it.

In Yellowstone

My son loves BUGS

The point of this rambling is that one of our ideas for a road trip was to Three Rivers Resort in Idaho.  Ever since I stumbled upon the blog, Travels with Clara, I've wanted to go.  We took a road trip to Yellowstone a few years ago, and it was one of our best road trips ever.  Driving through Idaho, I knew I wanted to go back to the state and explore.

We did not go, but check out her blog post of their trip. It's written by Yolanda Edwards, who used to be the travel and lifestyle editor of Cookie Magazine (RIP).   It would be a great road trip.