Spuds and Utah

We packed up the RV yesterday morning and left Provo, Utah for Victor, Idaho - they dub Victor "the end of the road" because if you go any more south or east, you run smack into the Teton Mountains. We are situated in the Teton Valley - surrounded by mountains on all sides - quite lovely. Was an uneventful drive, Dave decided that since it would be a long day, to stay on Interstate 15 as long as possible instead of our original plan of taking Route 89 - the one we traveled to get to Glendale and Provo. Pulled into the campground at 3pm, most miles we have driven and longest day.  Thankfully nothing happened other than lots of road paving going on which delayed us.   Lots and lots of rolling hills and co-ops for potato seed companies.  Rice is also grown here.  When we made the turn to go east off I15 in Idaho Falls, we could just barely make out the Teton Mountains but as we neared Victor, can't miss seeing them since we are at the base of them - and they still have some snow on them.  Our plans for the next two weeks:  driving over Teton Pass to get into Jackson Hole, Wyoming about 20 miles from here, see Grand Teton National Park, go into Yellowstone National Park which is north of Grand Teton NP,  see Jackson, do as much hiking as possible.  Lovely here - very green, lush, and hot.  Was 99 when we got in yesterday afternoon, way above normal of 82.  Supposed to drop into the 70's the rest of the week and lows in the high 40's at night.  Yeah!!! cooler weather, finally. And right now there are thunderstorms over the Teton mountains - and the temp dropped down to 75 within an hour.

Thoughts on Utah - been there, done that, don't want to go back.  Got really burned out by the red rock and there must be something with kids in Utah - both campgrounds we stayed at - the kids stayed up until midnight every night playing outside. We love kids - but.  Most of you know - Dave and I are early to bed folks, early rise, so this drove us nuts.  And families had tons of kids!!!  What's up with that?  And don't use seat belts on kids, kids on back of pickup trucks' beds, kids playing in the streets, and we are talking about young - just over a year old walking in the street, we were a nervous wreck. At the campground in Provo we had the luck  two families?  - women only, right beside us in 2 RVs, and we counted 13 kids before we gave up trying to figure it out - the kids seem to multiply every time we looked. We just couldn't figure that group out.  Another thing we observed in Utah - everywhere you look and in every town - Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS/Mormon) prominent on the main road, and we were shocked when we saw a different denomination church!