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Hello! This is Willow reporting live from the Mountain Home, Idaho Kampground of America (it’s not camping, its kamping is the motto here if any of you can make sense of that).

We’ve been in Idaho for about 6 days now, which I’ll get to, but honestly my heart is still in Yellowstone, which was really beautiful. So here’s some more photos:

This is some crazy algae growing in one of the 10,000 thermal features.

This is a crazy thermal feature.

This is Joe using his finger to demonstrate scale, what a tiny mountain!

It seems impossible, but this is Joe demonstrating a different combination of his 3 articles of clothing than has so far been seen.

This is lake Yellowstone, which was giant and really beautiful.

This is Joe’s evening routine, where he tries to squash his giant limbs into a tiny silk sleeping bag liner.

This is some of Mammoth Hot Springs, WTF?

Vogue.

Joe demonstrating advanced bear-box organizing technique.

Ok, enough Yellowstone. We spent the last couple days riding across the high prairie of Idaho (just below the sawtooth mountains), but first we had to traverse 71 miles of desert from Idaho Falls to Arco. There was nothing in this desert other than Idaho National Laboratories, which is some freaky x-files shit, and the EBR-1 museum. EBR-1 stands for expiramental Breeding Reactor #1. We stopped to check it out.

Not only was it the first nuclear power plant, it was also made entirely out of asbestos.

How’s the temperature Captain?

Bruce Nauman artwork?

Who’s a Yo La Tengo fan? If you push that button, your ass has got to go…

This has nothing to do with EBR-1, these are our campsite hosts in Arco with their giant tin foil ball. Notice that I am holding two cookies and an ice cream bar, hence the giant smirk.

Arco was pretty cool.

We checked out Craters of the Moon.

It is basically a whole ton of lava that pushed up through the earth (there’s no volcano or anything). It was huge and very otherworldly (hence the name).

These wonderful people let us stay in their guest house in Fairfield, plus they made us an awesome breakfast this morning. Thanks Randy and Laura!

For some reason we took absolutely no pictures, but we also spent a night in Picabo where we camped in the town park. The park was lovely, but we failed to locate Everett who is they guy who controls the sprinklers. We had a man-made rainstorm that night, fortunately we were dry inside our tent. There were also alpaca’s, a really cute donkey, and a cat named Boaz. Sorry for the camera fail.

Tomorrow we’re headed to Boise for a day off in the big city!