Boy Oh Boi-se

In two weeks it will have been exactly 3 years since I moved to Boise and for three years now, every time I speak with someone outside of three hundred miles from here there is some crack about potatoes, or desolate, middle of no where!!  Please look at a map people!!  Do a little research!!  Just go to Google and/or Google Earth!!

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Another thought, just come visit!!

This is the first place I have ever moved just for the place.  First school, then work, then a woman, then work, then family, then coaching, but never just because I was blown away by the place, and that was just over a long weekend.  Other places I have lived (Chico) I would listen to people rave about living there and all the amazing things they could do, and all of it was 45 minutes this way, and hour and 15 that way.  I am sitting in my new office looking at the foothills that I could walk to from here, easily, and then hike, run, cross-country ski.  5 minutes down the road I know of an amazing rock face that people are on every day.  5 minutes!!  That rock face overlooks the Boise Diversion Damn the scene of my favorite picture to date.  I am 100 yards, +/- from the Green Belt where today you would be able to walk, run, ride, board, under 65 degree blue skies and it is October 29th!!

Boise, ID is a whole lot more than potatoes folks, and it is anything but desolate.  There are lots of beautiful places to live in this country, and Boise is one of the most beautiful, at least of all those where you are not entirely on your own away from all civilization.

Thank you again for getting this far with me!!