Gooding, Idaho

We left HART RV Park to head on over to Gooding, Idaho on the back roads to check out the Gooding County Fair and Rodeo. We first checked out a really nice little RV park, Big Wood RV Park, north of town just off of Main Street that a guy at HART had told me about. Unfortunately all the spaces were already reserved so we checked out the National Guard parking lot next to the fair grounds. Seven went into NG center and asked if we could park there for a couple of days. "Sure", the young Guardsman said. We set up camp under a huge elm tree next to an irrigation ditch. Pretty nice place to dry camp.

Today was laundry day so we took off back down Main Street in the toad to look for a laundry. We found a nice clean one and unloaded our supplies and dirty stuff. While Seven was doing laundry I set up the computer and began looking for a hotspot. Bingo, one popped right up on J-Wire when I was in the laundry. The spot was right across the street and I went over and asked the store owner if I could use it. It turned out the store was a combo office supply place, ice cream shop, and gift store. The owner was super nice and let me use it for over an hour. I had to buy an ice cream of course.

Gooding seems to be a nice little town. When I tried to cross Main Street cars would stop and let me with friendly waves. The only problem is that when I ask someone a question it takes a couple of beats before I get an answer. Except for the owner of the Cafe Connect ice cream shop who was pretty sharp.

We are running the generator right now to let Seven catch up on Young and the Restless and to cool down the coach. It is about 90 degrees out.


We walked over to the fair grounds to see what was happening. There was a crowd at the goat show ring where 5 little kids were showing their goats. We watched that then checked out the livestock barns. The happy, sleeping show pig buddies in the picture were raised by Caleb Bradshaw of the Rookies 4-H Club. Compared to the facilities at the Pinal County fairgrounds in Arizona the facilities here in Gooding were luxurious. It was like the Missouri State Fair but with fewer animals and smaller barns.