Heading south past farmlands and after seeing hayfield after hayfield in Wyoming and Montana we decided we had found an artist who also grows hay.
We saw several more fields like this so assume the artist hires out to cut the hay. The landscape changed rapidly to one of farming - wheat, barley, and some potatoes.
The flat farmlands gave way to hills - one made us wonder how they ever planted it!
There were more picturesque farmlands but unless you are flying a drone with a camera it is impossible to capture their beauty. Some reminded me of patchwork quilts.
We entered the Nez Perce Indian Reservation and turned into the parking lot of the Museum only to realize we had been there when we took an American
Queen Steamship cruise on the Snake and Columbia Rivers a couple years ago. We did stop at an historic marker though.
No, we did not figure out which mountain had the bear in the net.
We noticed again how quickly the landscape changed back to mountains - and the road was following the path of a railroad. How did they ever build these railroads a hundred years ago?
Could not take photos of the tunnels but there seemed to be quite a few. And the tracks that were on the sides of the mountains were even scarier than the trestles!
Coming down the mountain to White Bird was an experience - you know a mountain is long and steep when there are FOUR runaway truck ramps. The last one was at the bottom and did not go uphill - it was a long flat gravelled chute.
Our campsite is at Swift River RV Park - again we are on a beautiful river - this is the Salmon River.
Tomorrow we are going to take a six hour adventure to Hell's Canyon - we didn't do it on our steamship cruise and regretted that so we get another chance!
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