Headed off to Idaho falls this morning passing through Arco, the first town to be powered by atomic energy. Turns out we were driving through the Idaho national laboratory which is where much of the nuclear research has been conducted. I took a little detour to visit EBR1, “The birthplace of nuclear power”.
There is a fantastic museum, well worth the visit. It did cut into the George and Jo’s plan for the day of visiting a bin store where returns/end of line stuff from the likes of Amazon are sold at a single price. Starting at $7 each today then $6 tomorrow etc.. Although we got there a little later than hoped (by some) we still managed some bargains, some better than others. I got a new starter motor for the lawn mower and a motorised valve! How do you compete with that? The others: a school bag, SSD drive and earrings to name a few. The 12 pack of expired Cheeto flavored Mac and Cheese were surprisingly tasty!
We ended the day with $1.38 All beef hot dog and drink from Sam’s club, (Walmart’s answer to Costco) the hot dog combo is $1.50 at Costco! Win for Sam’s club! Unfortunately, free refills of fizzy drink are a terrible combination. Mainly because they feel like they have to get as many refills as possible. Unfortunately, Sam’s club doesn’t have root beer! Win for Costco! Sam’s Club does however allow you to stay the night in their car park. Both have pretty good fuel prices. We paid $3.09/Gallon today. Which is helpful since we only get 8 miles to the gallon.
We will head into Jackson tomorrow and do Grand Tetons National park and try stay the night in National Forest before heading into Yellowstone the next day.
The McMillan Roadshow 