Friday, July 18, 2014 – Drive to Castle Rocks State Park near Almo Idaho

Managed to get out before 9:00, not our earliest start, but respectable. It helps that we knew we had a prepaid reservation, so it didn’t really matter what time we arrived, there would be a site for us. First 2 hours was through suburbs and city, then we opened up into vast wilderness. Stopped once for fuel, had no trouble finding the park or our site, and got set up. Hubby had some problems getting the satellite dish up and running, I think because we’re on a mountain that rises to the west, but he ended up finally getting a signal by putting the satellite dish on top of the hay in the back of the pickup, which is going to become problematic when I need to get down to the last of my hay. Still, we’re scheduled to leave on Tuesday, so it should be all right until then. This site has only one small corral, so both horses are going to have to get cozy. Fortunately, there seems to be shade for most of the day, which is good as the temps are in the low 90’s here. Finally got settled in for the evening.