#8 of 14 Idaho

State #8 on my Jetsetter Map is Idaho. We've been to Idaho twice; once for a human rights conference and once for an Aikido training weekend. We also went to the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area and the Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve.


While driving through Idaho occasionally we saw these weird, big, lumpy, whitish things along the side of the road. For a while we couldn't figure out what they were. Turns out they were sugar beets; in 2004 Idaho was the largest producer of sugar beets in the Northwest, 3rd in the US. They are transported in big dump trucks and occasionally fall off on the highways. I don't remember ever seeing sugar cane along the side of the road, but it probably just looked like clumps of dead grass.

(From gettyimages.com)

I went to see Harold from HG Capital Advisors today. He wanted to look over the Home Equity Line of Credit paperwork. After a call to Timothy at the credit union, Harold said everything looked good. I'll arrange to sit down with a notary to sign all the paperwork and get it back to Timothy.

Happy Birthday to Bruce, Wayne, Jeff, & Maria!