The barrels finally ran out just as we came to the Idaho state line. 
We stayed in three different places in Idaho. The first two were at reservoirs where we had water views and saw beautiful sunsets. Devil Creek Reservoir was just a one night stop before Pocatello. This is a picture of the sunlit mountain at the end of the reservoir.
We'd planned the stop in Pocatello to run some errands. I had a check to deposit and the bank wouldn't accept the check via the mobile app because the check was misprinted and the corner of the check border was missing. Our mail forwarding service in Florida had another check for us, so we had to pick a place to have the forwarding service send us our mail. We chose Pocatello because it was on our route and they had a Bank of Some of America (Jim's nickname because they aren't in quite a few states).
We parked the motorhome at a Lowe's in Pocatello, unhooked and headed for the post office and bank. After running our errands, having lunch, and stopping at a grocery store, we went back to the coach, hitched up and headed 30 miles to American Falls, where there are no falls but there is a dam and a large lake. There were falls, but they disappeared when they built a dam in 1926. During the process of building the dam, the original town was also moved: In all 344 residents, 46 businesses, three hotels, one school, five churches, one hospital, six grain elevators, and one flour mill.
We spent Father's Day weekend at the American Falls
campground, resting, doing laundry and grocery shopping. On Sunday we drove back to Pocatello to check
out the historic district where there are shops and restaurants, but nothing
was open. Even the restaurants were
closed. We did manage to see a statue of
Chief Pocatello, and read some interesting details about him and the city. We're always commenting on how there's a
Southampton everywhere, and other towns and cites have multiple namesakes. There are however, no other Pocatello's in
the whole world!
Re Chief Pocatallo, he was a well loved chief of the Shoshone. when he died he was buried with his 18
horses (owning horses was a sign of wealth), under the American Falls. He is
now somewhere under the reservoir where we camped for 3 nights!
Our stay at American Falls provided us with some more spectacular sunsets over the water,
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