DAY 2   


As we leave Oregon our route will take us past the majestic peaks of the Elkhorn Range home to gold mining ghost towns, elegant lakes and rivers. As we continue our journey, we will cross the mighty Snake River, the main tributary of the Columbia River. Once across the river we will enter the state of Idaho – nick named the “Gem State”. Idaho an important agricultural state producing nearly one-third of the potatoes grown in the United States.
 
 
We will travel through the beautiful Hagerman Valley, formed 15,000 years ago by an ancient flood. Soon after leaving the valley, we will enter Nevada. This part of Nevada remains today largely as it was 100 years ago. Once thought as a wasteland, it is looked upon as one of the last high desert wildernesses in the world. As we continue our journey this afternoon on our way to Wendover you will see a view unlike any other we look down towards the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Salt Flats extend across the desert as far as the eye can see and it curves. The horizon is a clean line arc from side to side and the two stripes of freeway pavement curve away across the alkali toward the vanishing point.