South Idaho, Craters of the Moon and in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark
There is desert, lava lands, green mountains, brown mountains and red mountains...there are fast flowing rapids...everywhere the rivers run really fast and there are plenty of rivers...the place is so mountainous that you are always driving next to rivers...probably because that is the only place they could easily build roads...
This is the land of the Nez Perce and the Flathead Indian tribes...the land of Chief Joseph and Sacajawea. Lewis and Clark passed through the Bitterroot mountains on their way to and from the Pacific...Idaho was a place of great difficulty for the party (mountains and starvation) as well as great relief (fast flowing rivers that the Indians had said would, and which did, lead to the ocean)...have a look at the vlog in the extended entry...
Tomorrow we move on towards Montana and Glacier National Park...
Today is also the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising that culminated in the downfall of the Apartheid regime with the release of Nelson Mandela and free elections on April 27, 1994...Amandla!
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