Sep 10, 2012 - Rainbow Lake RV Park-Rexburg, ID

Monday-9/10- Rainbow Lake RV Park-Rexburg, ID We stopped again at Rainbow Lake RV Park in Rexburg, ID. We loved this park and town and decided to stay here another 4 days before heading south to Utah. We originally had planned to go to the Tetons for a few days when we left West Yellowstone, but fires in Jackson and Casper, Wyoming made us change our mind. Luckily, we’ve never been real close to any of the fires out here in the West, but it does seem like they are burning just about everywhere. We did see many areas that had been burned...

Aug 31, 2012 - Rainbow Lake RV Park-Rexburg, ID

Friday-8/31- Rainbow Lake RV Park-Rexburg, ID Rainbow Lake RV was a very nice park with some picnic tables and trees. Check-in and laundry were all done by the honor system—you certainly don’t see that very often anymore. We faced a small lake in a pull-through site. The temperatures were moderate and we stayed 4 days waiting to get into an RV park at West Yellowstone. We really enjoyed this park and town. Rexburg is a college town and had plenty of restaurants and things to do. We may stop here on the way south.

Jul 21, 2012 - 2 Jog W to Teton NP, then to Rexburg, ID

If we ever figure out how to mark the map on the MTJ website, you might wonder at our abrupt westward jog. We had a date to visit Sandra and Jay Rush, their son Jason and his wife Alayne in Rexburg, ID on Mon. So, Sun. 15th July we drove 496 miles, all across Wyoming and into Grand Teton NP. This was an area we both loved from our earlier visit, and we thoroughly enjoyed our drive thru some of the most beautiful scenery in our country. Of course there were picture opps around every bend, and Ann took advantage of almost all of them!...

Jul 19, 2012 - Rexburg, Idaho

Another day that Bob and I took off in the convertible by ourselves. I knew there was an antique carousel in Rexburg and I wanted to find a hairdresser in real civilization. Desperately in need of a haircut. It was only 'down the road apiece' - 50 miles (but who's counting). Rexburg is much bigger city than any of the other places we've been recently. Off in the distance we could see a huge, white cathedral type building so we headed right for it. We go in a lot of churches. This one happened to The Church of the Latter Day Saints. Not...

Apr 30, 2012 - Rexburg, ID

Mon, 30 Apr: We decided to leave North Ogden and continue probing just how far north we can comfortably (and safely) travel. We left about 0930 and drove an astonishing eight miles to a Flying J in Willard, UT. We topped off our diesel tank as the prices in Idaho are 15¢ a gallon more than Utah and 18¢ a gallon more than Montana. We downloaded a newly released Pilot/Flying J application for our "not Mac" phones and it is pretty slick. We can check fuel prices at any nearby Pilot/Flying J truck stop or check prices in other...

Sep 25, 2011 - Yellowstone National Park

Hi Guys, Well today we visited Yellowstone National Park and boy did we save the best for last. From the minute you pass through the park gates, Yellowstone stuns you with it's pure simplistic natural beauty. Nothing spectactular, but everything just as it should be in such a beautiful place. We started at the west gate and drove through to Fisherman's Bridge and there where just Bison everywhere and not just one or two, there where herds of then just roaming beside the road and it was hard to remember that although they look docile, they...

Aug 12, 2011 - Rexburg, Idaho

We visited Yellowstone National Park again today, this time we were driving the RV and pulling the car. It was not as much fun as in the car. It was quite scary at times. Some of the roads are very curvy with no shoulders. I am so thankful that Jerry has all the driving experience he has. From my side of the front seat it looked like we were going to tumble over many times. I was glad to get out of the park this time. :-) We only saw a few elk and one stubborn buffalo. He held up the traffic for some time. He did not want to move out of...

Jul 14, 2010 - Thanks for the memory! Philo T. Farnsworth

Philo T, Farsworth, the inventor of television lived in Rixby Idaho. He worked out the basic formula while he was in high school and went on to perfect a working model as an adult. Farnsworth appeared on a 20 cent stamp honoring inventors. He patented more than 100 inventions in television and is best known for the first all-electric television transmission which occurred in San Francisco on September 7, 1927. Note: Information from the book: Roadside history of Idaho by Betty Derig - the book was given to us to use on our Idaho journey by...

Jun 24, 2010 - Drug Run

Today we made a drug run for John to Rexburg, Idaho, about 60 miles south of Island Park, where the nearest WalMart is located. It wasn't a Super WalMart so we were not able to replenish our grocery stock there, but there is an Albertson's next door, which worked out quite well. While we were waiting for the prescriptions to be refilled, we went out to Joe's Diner for breakfast, a local hangout which was excellent. Then we stopped just down the street at an LDS thrift store and got 19 puzzles, a light sweatshirt/jacket for John and two...

Apr 28, 2010 - Winter's return

. We departed Caldwell, Idaho at 7:30 AM this morning with the intention of making a 190-mile drive to Declo for a two-night visit before moving on east to Rexburg. Our planning involved holding in Rexburg until our summer destination in Island Park is free of snow and open for the season. Well, as it turned out, the weather forecast of last evening was fairly accurate, and we began to encounter a series of snow showers not far to the east of Boise. With temperatures slightly above freezing, nothing stuck to the highway however. I continued...

Sep 12, 2009 - Heading north towards Montana

Back on the road this morning and on north to Rexburg, Idaho and another great overnight spot I found in our “free campgrounds “ book. It is a Fish & Wildlife/County park called “Beaver Dick” park located 5 miles out of Rexburg right on the Henry's fork of the Snake River. They have a great day use area including picnic and boat ramps and then a large loop of campsites. Gorgeous campsites probably 75-80'long and 80-100' wide with a large fire ring, picnic table and almost all are separated by bushes or brush/trees for privacy. The Only...

Jul 2, 2008 - great sand dunes

Well today we took a side trip from Yellowstone to rexburg,Idaho. We really did not start out to see the great sand dunes we went because we needed tires for the airstream. That is right tires, the tires were so bad we could not take the airstream so that also meant we had to buy new trims too. Anyhow while we waited to get the rims and tires done we took the side trip to the sand dunes. They were pretty cool, big,big mound of sand and people were out there with dune buggies,ATVs and dirt bikes. The trip turned out to be pretty good. Of...