We got up early to go better check out the Bonneville Salt Flats.
The salt flats were really cool...one of my favourite places that we visited! Since it was springtime, they were mostly covered in water creating some really cool reflections, but during the summer they dry out and races are held on them.
I tasted the water....it was
wayyyyy salty...like even too salty for me!
That is a pile of salt on the ground behind us...not snow.
Here is the road leading out to the lookout points...we got the car up to 100mph on it (very good for a
honda civic hybrid!)...everyone was testing out how fast their car could go on this road.
Races usually start from here in the summer when it is dry.
After the salt flats, we were making our way through Idaho to eventually make it to Oregon...Idaho is the most boring place to drive through...seriously....
We saw lots of cows (and baby ones!!)
I am convinced there are only 2 interesting places in Idaho...both of which we drove way out of our way to see
haha.....one is Balanced rock...here is the entrance to the park.
You can see the actual "balanced rock" in this pic...these rocks were huge...like giants!!
We climbed up and walked around the rocks for a little bit...here I am admiring the view with Blaze. You can kinda get an idea at how big the rocks are.
While in Idaho, we reached our 1000
th mile on 1000
th st :) we're so cool...i know...
Another place we stopped in Idaho was part of the Oregon trail...we stretched our legs here for a bit.
We saw actual wagon ruts from the Oregon Trail itself!!
The other really cool place we stopped was the
Malad Gorge. It was really big and really out in the middle of nowhere...We got kinda lost trying to find it, so by the time we got there we were both grumpy and tired and just wanted to make it to our final destination which was somewhere in
eastern Oregon.
We continued on our way and thought it was cool that we were on 4 different roads at once!
And I hit a tumbleweed while driving...it hung out with us for a little while.
And once we finally reached Oregon, it started to rain....of course! I think today was one of our longest days of driving...we were so fried once we finally made it to the motel 6 where we were staying!
The salt flats were really cool...one of my favourite places that we visited! Since it was springtime, they were mostly covered in water creating some really cool reflections, but during the summer they dry out and races are held on them.
I tasted the water....it was wayyyyy salty...like even too salty for me! 
That is a pile of salt on the ground behind us...not snow. 
Here is the road leading out to the lookout points...we got the car up to 100mph on it (very good for a honda civic hybrid!)...everyone was testing out how fast their car could go on this road. 
Races usually start from here in the summer when it is dry.
After the salt flats, we were making our way through Idaho to eventually make it to Oregon...Idaho is the most boring place to drive through...seriously....
We saw lots of cows (and baby ones!!)
I am convinced there are only 2 interesting places in Idaho...both of which we drove way out of our way to see haha.....one is Balanced rock...here is the entrance to the park. 
You can see the actual "balanced rock" in this pic...these rocks were huge...like giants!!
We climbed up and walked around the rocks for a little bit...here I am admiring the view with Blaze. You can kinda get an idea at how big the rocks are.
While in Idaho, we reached our 1000th mile on 1000th st :) we're so cool...i know...
Another place we stopped in Idaho was part of the Oregon trail...we stretched our legs here for a bit. 
We saw actual wagon ruts from the Oregon Trail itself!!
The other really cool place we stopped was the Malad Gorge. It was really big and really out in the middle of nowhere...We got kinda lost trying to find it, so by the time we got there we were both grumpy and tired and just wanted to make it to our final destination which was somewhere in eastern Oregon. 
We continued on our way and thought it was cool that we were on 4 different roads at once!
And I hit a tumbleweed while driving...it hung out with us for a little while.
And once we finally reached Oregon, it started to rain....of course! I think today was one of our longest days of driving...we were so fried once we finally made it to the motel 6 where we were staying!
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