Last weekend my family went to Twin Falls, Idaho to celebrate father’s day. I had been looking forward to this trip because Twin Falls is not far from the Nevada border and I wanted to go to Texas Springs. When it was time to go to Texas Springs I wasn’t feeling good so I decided to cancel my plans.

After sitting around for a while I decided I would go to a rock shop in Jerome, Idaho since it was less than 10 miles away. When I arrived at the shop I found it closed with a sign saying to call a cell phone for service. I looked in the windows of the shop and did not see anything that I wanted to take a closer look at. There may have something to look at in the store but I wasn’t going to call the number unless I know there was a chance that I would buy something.

As I got into my car to head back to Twin Falls I remembered reading online about a rock dealer on the north side of Shoshone, Idaho. Since I really didn’t want to go back and sit around at my parent’s house I decide to go looking for it. I didn’t find the shop but that was no big deal. I once had a lot of family in the town and lived there when I was small child so going to Shoshone brings back many good memories.

Since I didn’t find a rock shop in Shoshone I continued north. I drove past Jonny’s Country Store and remembered stopping there with my grandfather when we would go fishing. I loved that place as a kid because they had an Indian wearing a neck tie mounted to a post in the store. If you pulled the Indian’s tie he would spit at you.

I continued going north until I came to the Shoshone Ice Caves. This was another memory spot that I remembered stopping at with my grandfather. The big Indian and the caveman riding a dinosaur were just as I remembered them. There was also a small museum that I remember going to as a kid but I didn’t remember the exhibits at all. When I went in I found that it was mostly minerals and lapidary items. I spent about fifteen minutes looking everything over. Then I started looking over the items for sale and found that there was basically a rock shop at the building where people paid to tour the caves. I picked out some rocks and a couple of antique bottles. The prices were very good.When I left the Ice caves I continued heading north because I wanted to photo graph the lava flows in the area. I made my way to the turn off for Magic Reservoir and stopped at rest area where there was some example s of rock sculptures created by erosion. I took a few more pictures of the landscapes then headed back to Twin Falls.

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