Dust Storms in Idaho

White potato building and the sod potato building on the right. The sod buildings are hard to see. They just have steel ends but other than that they are camoflaged with the plains.
See the dirt on the road? It is blowing like waves of snow.
Billings MT and Idaho seem to allow ATVs on the road. We were at a stoplight in Billings and an ATV pulled up beside us. Our son Ben would love it! Here's a picture of some parked in the town of West Yellowstone. This was very common.
Here's a little electric cart we bought and I don't think I told you about it. It's called a Cricket. It goes 12 MPH, travels 15 miles before needing recharged and charges in 8 hours. We use it in large campgrounds to meet people and also could have driven it around town in some places. It fits in the side door of the trailer nicely.

Today we traveled from West Yellowstone MT to Arco, ID. About 70 miles west of Arco we started to see dust in the air ahead and in about 20 miles we ran into the worst dust storm we’ve ever seen. The dirt was actually blowing across the road like snow. We slowed to 30 MPH as visibility was only a few hundred feet at the worst point. At the Arco campground the owner said 5000 acres had burned recently and that is what allowed the dust to get started blowing. We have been parked here at the “Landing Zone” campground for a few hours with winds 25 gusting to 45. At least the air is 95% cleaner than when we were traveling. Visibility here is a mile or so. We were going to go to the Craters of the Moon National Monument but the campground owner said if it is blowing dust here; it will be blowing rocks there. Traveling does make one tired so we took a nap and we are eating in tonight. Tomorrow we plan on driving west then north through the Sawtooth Mountain area. We have a campground reserved for tomorrow night then plan to travel north into Montana to Corvallis to see Chuck and Mary Garber. Chuck built our home in Indiana 14years ago and then moved to Montana to get away from us but we have tracked him down. Actually I had never met Chuck till we built and I wasn’t working then and helped build the home. I really enjoyed getting to know him and his crew. Kim made lots of cookies and brownies and fattened them up. It will be good to see them again.