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The map outlines a road trip that we just concluded through 4 Western States. We started our trip in Washingon, then visited Oregon, Idaho and finally Montana

Idaho was really the state where we spent the bulk of our time. The state is just gorgeous in terms of natural beauty with the tall mountains and deep valleys with beautiful rivers flowing through them. I will be posting some more details in the days to come. When traveling through Idaho, it would be definitely worth your time to travel through the scenic byways. We did just that, and though it added a lot of time and distance, it was totally worth it.

This was one of the first cocktails I ever made. The Pisco sour is a wonderful cocktail hailing from South America. As with everything illustrious and desired, this Pisco-based cocktail has fairly foggy origins as several claims to have been its creator. The most accepted tale is that it began its existence in Lima’s popular, wood-paneled Morris Bar back in the early 20th century.

Ingredients

• 3 oz (2oz if you are going for more smoothness) Pisco
• 0.5 oz Lime Juice
• 0.5 oz Lemon Juice
• 3/4 oz Simple Syrup
• 1 Fresh Egg White
• Pinch of Chaat Masala.
• 3-4 drops Angostura Bitters

Preparation

• Combine pisco, lime, simple syrup, and egg white in a cocktail shaker without ice and seal. Shake vigorously until egg white is foamy, about 10 seconds.
• Add ice to shaker and shake again very hard until well-chilled, about 10 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass; dash bitters atop the egg-white foam. There should be no ice in the drink

The northern Sawtooth Range formed from the Eocene Sawtooth batholith, while south of Alturas Lake the mountains formed from the Cretaceous granodiorite of the Idaho Batholith. The Sawtooth Range has a history of alpine glaciation, but while no surface glaciers exist today, perennial snow fields and rock glaciers remain, usually on north or east-facing slopes. There have been 202 perennial snow fields mapped in the Sawtooth Range. The Sawtooth Range was last extensively glaciated in the Pleistocene, but glaciers probably existed during the Little Ice Age, which ended around 1850 AD. Evidence of past glaciation given remnants of the glaciers such as glacial lakes, moraines, horns, hanging valleys, cirques, and arêtes.

The lake is named for the brilliant sockeye salmon that once returned from the Pacific Ocean in such massive quantities that the lake shimmered red during the spawning season. Currently, only a small percentage of the wild sockeye succeed in making it through the several hydroelectric dams along their route back to the lake to spawn. Sockeye must not be targeted while fishing and must immediately be released if they are caught.

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm

Marcus Aurelius in Meditations

Meet my little buddy Ollie. Ollie is a 3-year-old sheepadoodle (Old English Sheepdog & Poodle Mix) He is a fantastic travel partner and hiking buddy. Here he is in a park in Sun Valley.

Hello World, looks like vacation is as good a time as any to start blogging.