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After we'd gotten back home from Boise weather wise, the temps warmed up to 'unseasonably warm' and most all the snow melted. Actually the Presidents Day Holiday weekend the grasses were coming up, people actually had begun getting ready for their gardens. Then Sunday the 20th it started to snow. In less than 24 hours over a foot of snow and almost two feet before the storm passed. The next few weeks it was December all over again, at and below zero temps, another almost foot of snow. Winter all over. I was really looking forward to getting the Solstice and motorcycles going, it had been so much like an early spring. But no, it wasn't going to happen quite yet. Even today (3/20) because of all the snow neither the car or the motorcycles can be gotten out with all snow/ice in our driveway blocking way. Maybe in a couple of weeks I can try again. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

First, the rest of the Boise trip. After leaving Boise, we headed back on I-84 and came across snow/ice on the freeway in the mountains east of Pendleton, Oregon. It was actually staying on the road for several miles and for the most part only one lane was open each way with plows working at cleaning it all up. Most of the big rigs were getting their chains on for those going Eastbound. The ones we passed going Westerly, didn't seem to. They were just going really slow. I think because going Westbound it was a more gradual climb. If driving East from Pendleton, and about 20 miles east of the town, you'll drive up a very steep climb to the summit. Anyway, we'd hoped to stop for the night at the Wild Horse Casino and Hotel which is just a bit past the base of the grade I mentioned above from Pendleton. They are in the process of building a new Hotel expansion and since it is a ways from being completed they have very limited rooms available and so they were booked, even on t