The Adventure Begins

These are the voyages of the Starship Heinz and Furball. Our two week mission: to see exotic places (like Boise, Idaho (asks Furball, "Does anybody actually LIVE here?")), to sample exciting ketchup flavors, and to have really, really bad hair days.

Today is the first day of The Great West Coast Road Trip (TGWCRT). We left Seattle 8 minutes behind schedule. We got to Boise about 3 hours ahead. Go figure. It gave us plenty of time to wander around the booming metropolis of Boise ("where are all the people?") and eat burgers and quesadillas. Oh, and the made-to-order potato chips, from potatoes fresh from the vine. Or something. Yummy.

Did you know that eating ice cream can make you stupid? Not the ice cream, exactly, more like the amazingly vapid teens that worked at and patronized the Maggie Moo ice cream shop. We had to flee before our brains shriveled up like raisins, but not before we got our yummy ice cream.

We'll take more driving days like the one today - easy, not-too-boring, with some fun torrential rain. Seriously, the rain was cool. Except for the part where we couldn't see the car in front of us. But, no, really, the rain was good. Can't have too much of that pesky sunshine! We're waiting for Death Valley for that.