Idaho 2017 Day 1

I'm finally going through all of our pictures from our Idaho trip. We packed a lot in during those eight days and so I'm breaking it down into smaller pieces or I might never finish it! Since we knew were going to spend the week with family, we added some family history stops on our way to Idaho Falls. We drove through Mantua, Utah. I don't blame you if you don't know where it is because it is a tiny town east of Brigham City. That's where Hans Lars Nielsen and his family first settled when they arrived in Utah from Denmark. His wife Karen died while they were there and he married Ane, Jonathan's great-great grandma. Back then, there wasn't much water and so he moved the family up to Mink Creek, Idaho. Today there is a reservoir there and it is still a little town. We drove up to Idaho on highway 91 and through Preston to get to Mink Creek. We ended up behind a tractor along our way to the cemetery. To get to the dirt road to the c...