We had designs on the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyo., but the drive time was excessive. So we amended our flight plan and set our coordinates for the moon instead -- just west of Arco, Idaho.
The lunar landscape comes down to earth at this weird and exotic location In southern Idaho, where a volcano erupted about 2,000 years ago spewing lava over an 18-mile area. Today there is plenty of pahoehoe and aa to be seen over a bizarreand fascinating landscape. We scaled a volcaniccone and looked into the crater, 6,000 feet above sea level, then climbed into and underground cave left behind by molten magma 20 decades ago. All the barren grey-black rock was unearthly.
The Devils Orchard and Craters of the Moon National Monument
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