Vegas Trip Day 2

Well the morning started off great with a hot breakfast at the hotel and then we decided to try and find the Idaho Falls in town but the entire river was frozen over and there didn't seem to any Falls to be found.










We did find a geocache dedicated to the author Wilson Rawls who wrote the book  “Where the Red Fern Grows” , if you have never read it or seen the movie I highly recommend them, just make sure that you have a box of Kleenex handy, huge tear jerker.  

After that we headed down to Twin Falls, Now we did manage to find two different sets of falls here. The first was Shoshone Falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," It is 212 feet (65 m) high—45 feet (14 m) higher than Niagara Falls. This time of year there wasn't much water, in the spring the water goes all the way across the entire face of the rocks.

The next stop was twin falls which doesn't quite live up to its name anymore, after they put in the new power plant there is only one falls now. It did however have more water coming over it than the Shoshone Falls.

Next stop was the Perrine Bridge. It is approximately 1,500 feet (457 m) long and 486 feet (148 m) above the Snake River.

They do base jumping and bungee jumping off this bridge into the canyon below, there wasn't enough time to do any ourselves however to the east, along the south rim of the canyon, is the dirt ramp used by Evel Knievel when he unsuccessfully attempted to jump the canyon on his steam-powered "skycycle" in 1974. Knievel crashed on the jump because of a parachute malfunction; it opened right after his take off. He survived the crash with only a broken nose. The ramp where he made the leap sits on private property so this picture is about as close as you can get to it. The ramp is that brown slanted thing on the far side of the picture.

After Twin Falls, I took over the driving to head on down to Ely. We hit the border of Idaho and Nevada and made a quick stop in Jackpot to have lunch.  Went to Cactus Pete’s signed up for their rewards card, each got $15 dollars of bonus play, hit the slots and managed to leave with $28 in our pockets, without spending any of our own money. It was too early for dinner and a little too late for lunch so we decided to take our money and run and spend our winnings on dinner in Ely. We hit the road again and I must say this had to be the longest, most boring highway, the only good thing was that the speed limit was 70 miles an hour so it went by pretty fast. We found a Ramada in Ely where we spent the night.