We have finished day two of our 2015 road trip. We drove 320 miles today and are at the Blue Heron B&B on the Snake River just north of Rigby, Idaho. I can't remember for sure but I think we have stayed here 4 times before. It is a wonderful place. We stopped in Idaho Falls to pick up food for dinner then shared a bottle of wine and ate dinner on the deck overlooking the river!
It was a great day. Our first stop was the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. It is along the Snake River and the Oregon trail. Over 200 different species of plant and animal fossils have been found here including many discovered here for the first time. The "Hagerman Horse" is a prehistoric horse discovered here. There aren't any fossils to see in the field but the visitor center was very interesting.
Next we went to Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. The most recent eruption there was about 2000 years ago. The lava formations and cinder cones a unearthly. It was VERY windy but we climbed a cinder cone and later found a spot for a picnic lunch.
Our last stop of the day was the EBR-1 Atomic Museum Which is a National Historic Landmark. On December 20, 1951 it was the first power plant in the world to produce electricity from Nuclear energy. We did a self guided tour through the whole facility and even got to go into the reactor. Very cool!
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