It had been a cold night and as I opened my tent Sofie was standing there - hat on. I almost had a fight with Sweet Machine: he didn't want to go up the steep hill but I showed him who's in charge! An oatmeal cookie and a delicious hot chocolate made us strong enough for the long ride to Afton. We followed the Snake River downstream, bend after bend - sometimes cycling on the wrong side of the road to view the people rafting. Maybe one day...
Alpine is my gas station stop: it wasn't a very peaceful stop since roadwork was going on. Even the webcam was taken down so we couldn't wave to Celine.
At the general store - post office of Etna we took a water break. Boy... it was a hard job to convince Sofie to throw water over her to cool her down.
This valley is called Star Valley (what's in a name) and is known for it's cheese factory in Thayne. Ha... cheese factory... let's visit and taste some cheese we thought. Wrong, buddy - no cheese tasting nor touring the factory, but we could buy ice cream and who can resist to that! The one scoop we got, is the same as four scoops in Belgium.
Finally the last leg to Afton, where we shopped in the Dollar Family and got some good deals. At our motel we went swimming and played with an inflatable ball (yes, Dollar Family) like kids. Then, we crossed the street and ordered food in the Red Baron, some sort of old fashioned fast food joint where the waitress comes up to the cars... except we were on foot.
Having our orders we rushed back to the room, ate and wrote post cards.
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