Arco KOA Arco, Idaho (5/24-5/30)

We had a nice easy drive day from Boise over to Arco, Idaho. Along the way we passed the snake river a few times.

Idaho is a big agricultural area believe it or not. And in Idaho any farm equipment on the road has the right away. It’s the law. Fortunately for us when we came across this big tractor he pulled over and let us go by. Otherwise, I don’t think we would’ve ever made it passing him.

As we got closer to Arco, we got closer to the mountains. And it was pretty neat to watch a little rain storm come in over the mountains. We only got a few sprinkles, thankfully.

We drove into the town of Arco. We saw all of these numbers painted on the side of the hill. We later found out that every year that graduates from the high school. The kids graduating that year, climb up the mountain side and paint the number for the year they are graduating so for example, this year they painted 26. In this town, the kids have been doing this since 1923 so over 100 years that’s pretty crazy. If you look closely at the picture, I see a 48 up there so that thing has been there for quite some time. How cool is that?

We got settled into our campsite and met our new neighbor, who now resides between our friends, Barbara and Mark and us in our RV. His name is Chester and he is a ground squirrel that lives in the fire pit at our campsite. Check out his cheeks stuffed with seeds he’s so cute.Read more