The 24 Hour Trip to Boise

On a good day the trip to Boise from Provo is only 6 hours.

I am personally very grateful to have made it home in one piece. There was a blizzard that went through Salt Lake and BYU that closed the campus on Tuesday. Well, I got to drive home in that. I had a group presentation at 2:00 pm on Monday for one of my classes and then my friend Kassie, her brother Jake and I left town around 3 on Monday.


I drove the whole way through Utah and the weather was totally fine. We even made it through the tricky mountain pass right on the Idaho/Utah border ok. But we got to about Burley/Twin Falls area and the weather was absolutely terrible. We saw lots of cars slid off the road and heard of some friends who had too close of an encounter with black ice. The wind was blowing and it was snowing so hard that we decided to stop and spend the night in Twin Falls, which was so frustrating because on a good day that is only two hours away from Boise!

Anyways, we spent the night at Kassie's cousins' house. They were very gracious and it ended up being a lot of fun. I tried Korean food for the first time because Kassie's cousin Catherine just got home from a mission in Korea. I now officially like seaweed and kimchi (pickled fermented spicy cabbage). Sounds yummy, right?

We ended up waiting out the blizzard (I'm not exaggerating, it was truly a blizzard) until noon in Twin Falls and then made it safely to Boise at 3, which was 24 hours after our original departure.

All I know is that given the circumstances, we made the best decisions we could have. If we had waited until Tuesday, the Utah/Idaho border would have been closed and I would probably still be in Provo right now. And there was a break in the storm just long enough on Tuesday for us to make it to Boise. Heavenly Father must have been looking out for us.