Today Flounder and I left Boise and headed to the sawtooth lodge, north of Boise about 2hrs. Another beautiful drive out here, it’s hard to keep my eyes on the road. We arrived and turned off onto a washboard dirt road “oh no what did I just get myself into” I thought. The road is very bumpy and if something doesn’t fall off the underside of my truck by the end of it I’ll be surprised. My truck is kicking up all kinds of dust and my gps says “you’ve arrived” but I don’t see a lodge or the sawtooth mountains. So I keep driving a bit, and the trees clear and it opens up. Now I know I’m here, the mountains are beautiful and sharp. What a road in, still very rough too. Finally I pull in and meet some of the guys, they’re busy checking the property out so Andrea, Jesse’s wife gives me the lowdown and walks me around. This place is beautiful I keep thinking to myself. They show me to my camper it’s a nice 20-30ft jayco, way nicer than I expected. I definitely overpacked for this trip. after unpacking flounder and I walk up the road to sacajawea hot springs, there’s about 20 pools you can build or pick one to sit in. The water comes out at about 160 degrees so you have to make the perfect pool with the right amount of cold from the river. Flounder without any hesitation hops in one and bolts out, I touched it with my hand and it was scolding hot. I don’t know how he didn’t burn his pads. We found a nicer temperature one and he was fine.
Back at the camper I’m alone for the night. My little bit of self doubt creeps in. Will I like this? What am I doing this for? Is this too much stress for flounder? I’m a surfer why the hell am i in the mountains? I pushed these thoughts aside went up to the geothermal pool with flounder around sunset which is 930pm (10pm is about dark) here and soaked in the mountains and the warm water. As uncomfortable as this was at first, it now feels so right and I couldn’t feel more at home. So we’ll be up here for a while, everyday is a big day for flounder and I.
Words from day 1
