Now that I have been in Canada for nearly a week I have decided to put all my posts from the United States, traveling from Durham to Seattle during July, on hold and post them at a later date. I took lots of photos in Ohio (Cleveland and Cincinnati), Indianapolis, a surprise destination in Kansas, Boise and Seattle, plus unexpected finds I stumbled upon along the way. It takes time to go through them all and select which ones I want to post (and I am now using both my smartphone and my digital camera). So they will wait until I get back to Durham, or if I get snowed in somewhere up here in the Great White North.
I do want to tell the amusing JohnBoy story I promised you before I switch countries. This took place the morning I drove west of Boise and then south past Kuna to get to the Snake River.
When I arrived at first overlook there was a small car already in the parking lot. I didn’t see anyone around and assumed they were down by the top of the cliff overlooking the river (which I couldn’t see from the gravel parking lot).
I was moving my car around trying to decide which way to angle it to make my sunshields in the windows most effective. I tried pulling in behind the silver car which was parked parallel to the edge of the parking area but with the front of my car facing the edge, thus perpendicular to the silver car. I was quite shocked when something popped up into the rear window and looked towards me.
In that split second I thought “there’s a frickin’ baby gorilla in that car!!”. I swear to God that’s what it looked like. Now keep in mind, I had my sunglasses on, and the back windows of the small car were tinted, making anything inside it look dark.
I pulled my car to the other end of the parking area, got my smartphone out and walked over to the car to take a picture. About that time, a man who had been sleeping in the back of the car opened the back door and got out. Boy did I have egg on my face…
He walked over to the lavatory to use it and I waited at a distance for him to come out. I started to explain why I was approaching his car the way I did (he might have thought I was going to break into it) but he muttered something that implied he wasn’t terribly interested so I left him alone, used the lavatory myself, and headed down towards the river.
Now I know what you’re thinking…. JohnBoy, why in the world did you think there would be a baby gorilla inside someone’s car near Kuna, Idaho??? I will direct your attention to a post I made in 2017. Enter “Boise” in the search box on the home page and then go down to the link that will take you to a post titled “Boy, I sure didn’t see this one coming”….
Maybe I’m not as crazy as you think.
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