Chapter Two:

Finally Sleep!

or

The Beautiful Drive.

After 23+hrs of driving, we finally stopped by the Payette River at the Swinging Bridge Campground. Rest! Danny decided that we only needed our backpacking tent (he remembered it being larger:), but we brought our big sleeping mats! Needless to say we were very "snug" in our small tent!

We drove up the river towards Camp Shiloh. The drive was absolutely breath-taking! Pictures don't even do it justice.

Wouldn't is be nice if this

was your summer cabin?

The area around the camp is mostly farmland. The camp is about 15 acres with many places nearby to take campers on wilderness trips. We got there on the last day of camp, everyone was so kind to us! We went out to lunch with the staff and were invited to stay the night. Mary and James (who are also looking at camps) met us there and we were given a tour of camp. Thank you to Camp Shiloh for your kindness, and hospitality!!!

The nearest big (and by big I mean a couple thousand people) town is McCall. It's a beautiful town on a lake, a lot like Lake Tahoe, only smaller. Boise is about 2 1/2hrs. away. While we were there we had to go to the airport---where the headquarters for the smoke jumpers just happens to be!! Danny went in to talk to the mechanic, and I got some pictures of some REALLY cool planes!