Challis – Idaho

We made our way south into Idaho on Sunday and drove along the Salmon River basin.

I always had the impression that Idaho was flat boring potato land but it’s not like that at all. There are may rivers and canyons and beautiful mountains. The site here in Challis is also right on a golf course so John has been playing every morning. Today we visited a real ghost town near here called Bayhorse. It’s an old mining town from the late 1800’s and at one time had as many as 300 people living there. We had to drive several miles off the main road down a dusty dirt road and by the time we arrived at the little town it felt very remote.

Not another person in sight, just me and John wandering around and trying to picture what life must have been like more than 100 years ago.

Tomorrow we set off south again heading for Utah.