Summer Dream 2006

Miles of Idaho desert. I was calling it the plains until Irene Healy corrected me later in the day.
Craters of moon, the devil’s playground, inferno of the past, many names to describe the tortured landscape, cooled now from a fiery past. Different from a volcano, the region was formed over many eruptions by a long rift in the earth. Magma flowed and cooled, and re-flowed. An awesome place, trying to imagine what it could have been like at the time.

And the route, highway 20, was so appropriate; five miles either side, another tortured landscape in the midst of repair. The good fortune was no work crews on Sunday, no delays, just the jostle and the loose gravel that two wheels love so well.

Midday promised another high school reunion in Hailey, just south of Sun Valley. And a wonderful one with classmate Mike Healy, still as dynamic and active as in high school. We talked and laughed and toured on foot the wonderful community of Hailey. Irene and Mike talked of travels by bicycle with five weeks soon to come in France. No wonder they are trim and fit. And the photo is a stream virtually in his back yard. And an ‘classic’ introduction back to civilization, a Beethoven concert in the park, up Sun Valley way. Third symphony, an hour long, wine and cheese and grass. A perfect evening.