We drove our coach 270 miles, over four hours of driving, from Glenns Ferry, Idaho to Alpine, Wyoming.

Here’s the map route, heading east:

An interactive map, with potential stops marked:

Our actual stops:

Preparing to leave:

Mural:

Snake River:

Love’s travel centers have been adding RV parks; this looks like a decent one, with pull-through sites:

Wide load:

Shoshone:

Zoomed perspective of the road (highway 26):

Another wide load:

We chose this route so we could visit Craters of the Moon National Monument:

It has some RV parking, which barely fits us, so we were able to visit on a travel day — a first for us:

We unhooked our truck, and drove around the park (see a forthcoming post about that):

When we got back, the RV parking was full:

Onward on US-20:

Arco, Idaho, the first city in the world to be lit by atomic power:

We made an unplanned stop at a rest area, to take a break from unnervingly high wind gusts:

Peaks:

Fuel stop:

We had to wait for a long time due to an inconsiderate truck driver that had parked and gone inside; the convention at truck stops is after fueling you can pull forward and stop for up to 15 minutes, but this driver was gone much longer than that:

Potato fields:

Snake River:

Palisades Dam:

Palisades Reservoir:

“Welcome to Wyoming”:

Our destination: