On day two of our journey we traveled to Pingree, Idaho. Pingree is a small farming community – there are more cattle than people in the town. Wide open spaces abound, much of which are covered with potato plants. Yes, this is the part of Idaho where the world famous Idaho Russet Potato comes from and boy oh boy do they have a lot of them. Fields as long and far as you can see just covered with potato plants. Pingree is small enough that the streets are named after the people that reside on the street – since there is basically one house per street – so since Jen’s relatives last name is Rossi they live on Rossi Road. There is a gas station/general store and a restaurant/pub and that is the total of the commerce for the town.

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