Arco, Idaho - Craters of the Moon National Monument 9/11 - 9/14 2020 Travel Tour

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                                                             Tim and Linda Bunyan

Craters of the Moon National Monument near Arco, Idaho: RV Campground, first come, first serve.  We arrived and instructed to drive around the campground to choose a site. 

It was afternoon and we were pleased to find a pull-through with an amount of privacy so we pulled in. 

The cost is $8.50 per night with a self-pay envelope station to use with our Senior Pass for half price as this is a National Monument and Preserve.

Our RV site nestled in lava walls and pinyon pine trees

The visitor center was covid closed, but a map is given to visitors from a park ranger at the front door with a table filled with information on the park.

Here is Woodstock checking out our site and Tim setting up the BBQ.

Inferno Cone, steep 1/2 mile walk.

Cinder cones form from gas-rich volcanic froths that erupt and are carried high into the air and then piles into a mound.

The craters of Craters of the Moon are of volcanic origin.  Not from one volcano but from a series of deep fissures known as the Great Rift.  15,000 years ago lava welled up from the Great Rift to produce this vast ocean of rock.  Simular future eruptions are lifely.

One of the world's largest basaltic cinder cones.

Spatter Cone form from ejected globs of tacky lava

Big globs of lava blown out of cinder cones harden in-flight forming many lava shapes

2 miles hike through Devils Orchard with lava fragments in a sea of cinders.

These blobs of volcanic lava stopped spouting thru the air about 2500 years ago well know here for beautiful volcanic features.

This photo is to show the 52-mile long fissure called the Great Rift.  Tim and I hiked up to the top edge for a great view 

The Great Rift is one of only two such features in the world!

The unusual geologic features through the 380,000 acres of the Craters of the Moon are the largest, deepest, and most recent volcanic rift system in the United States.

Woodstock is done with all the lava!

We've many good hiking trails all around this National Monument and Preserve.

The same hot lava flows that destroyed everything in its path, today protect some of the last remaining islands of natural Antelope bitterbrush, sagebrush steppe vegetation on the Snake River Plain. 

Time to go!  We are headed 70 miles northwest to Meadows RV Park in Ketchum, Idaho!

Ephriam, Utah AND overnight in Pocatello, Idaho (BoyScouts and Museum of Clean) - Pleasant Creek RV Park 9/7 - 9/11 2020 Travel Tour

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                                                             Tim and Linda Bunyan

Travel Touring thru the middle of Utah from Thousand Lakes, RV in Torrey Utah we head about 100 miles north to Pleasant Creek RV Park in Ephriam, Utah

 in the Great Basin (contiguous endorheic watershed.

We are in awe of the countryside, agrarian, and the remote living in this part of America.  The elevation at Morman Peak is 7,000 feet and 81 degrees.

The first settlement at Ephraim was made in 1854, located in the Sanpete Valley.  It was deemed favorable to settle by Brigham Young.  About 50 families were called to organize and move to settle at now the present site of Manti Utah.  The Manti Utah Temple is the fifth temple built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Mani hosts the two-week-long Mormon Miracle Pagent.  Settles arrived (1849) at the present location and endured a severe winter to learn the techniques of successful farming from the Ute Tribe.

A significant industry in the area is turkey ranching and the Moroni Feed Company.  Alfalfa fields and other animal feed crops make up the bulk of the agricultural activity and economy.

The Mount Pleasant RV Park (Coast to Coast RV membership) has full service and is located in a rural hillside just 5 miles out of the town of Ephriam, Utah.

It snowed one day during our stay!  The snow melted on the ground but did collect on the branches for a lovely scenic display!

There are wild turkeys (free-range!) here.  Woodstock watched and was still as can be as the turkeys raced by our RV!.

The area is beautiful and pleasant.  Four Wheelers come here to camp and ride out to the countryside.

We spent the afternoon in town (population: 6,200).

This is a typical house in present-day Mormon towns.  The large house and many vehicles may be an indication of generations of family living together.

The noticeable wide streets are planned by the Mormon settlers.

We continue our way traveling north, 200 miles to reach Pocatello, Idaho with a stopover at a

 (Harvest Host).  In the parking lot of the "Museum of Clean". 

 It is astonishing to discover the success of this one man with his 8 million dollars, family-built corporation selling cleaning products and services.  CEO and author of 40 books and completed more than 6000 seminars, workshops, and t.v. (Oprah Show) filmings nationally, now retired, Don Anslett created this 75,000 sq. ft. complex museum with the ultimate mission and vision to sell the idea and value of clean, to put clean into the minds of all who visit. 

 This is a Must-See recommendation! 

3,000 square feet of antiques and pictures.  This museum complex is one city block filled with examples of beyond clean as the Clean dominates the value of everything that affects life--like clean air, clean water, clean language, clean beds, floors, politics, jokes, arteries, teeth.

First motor-powered vacuum from 1902 used in Great Britain.  This horse-drawn central vacuum would park outside large buildings while a gas-powered exterior engine was used to create the suction necessary to clean the interior of the building via a long hose.,

Other models of the fifties vacuum cleaners!  Art displays, exhibits, print, and participation in the hands-on educational activities.  There is a stage area where kids are taught with puppet shows.

Tim found the Electrolite he recalls from his childhood.  A favorite display is the "your Garage" display.  de-junk and live simpler lives, automatically live cleaner.

This is the Kirby I recall from my childhood.  Lift the front cover to expose the light bulb!  The red dial on the front to remove the head of the vacuum.

The extreme Mr. Clean, Mr. Don Anslett appeared while we were there!  He gave us a personal tour and quite a fascinating man of nearly 80 years old.  He continues to pride himself on clean living in all aspects.

His Office where he continues to create ideas on yellow notepads.  On the back wall are his books.  He autographed a couple and gave them to Tim and me!  

Don Aslett posts the Scout manual and program is the best of life's "how-to" source ever conceived.

  Be: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

Here we are parked out front in the parking lot of the 4-story museum.   School-aged children get bused for a day field trip as there is something for everyone here in the Museum of Clean!  Having sold his 40-year company to now: Varsity Cleaning Services, we stopped in town to purchase some cleaning products to take back home as gifts!

Tim takes Woodstock for a walk about the ground.  This is a shuttle bus of Clean to transport children and seniors to come for a visit.

Here we are at the Museum of Clean (Harvest Host) for an overnight in Pocatello, Idaho.

"Being clean is a state of unsolicited reverence.  Our degree of clean regulates our level of self-worth, self-confidence, and surely the quality of our communication with our Creator".

Don Aslet, author of 40 books and completed more than 6000 seminars, workshops, and T filmings natinally and internationally.

We are on our way to Craters of the Moon National Monument RV Park and then to Ketchum to visit Sun Valley, Idaho