Last year, we didn't get to Owyhee at all. This was entirely due to the fact that the Tacoma didn't come home to the Pacific Northwest - from Las Vegas - until early July. By that time, we'd missed prime Owyhee time - a short period of weeks right around Memorial Day - when the grass in the high desert is green, the rains (and resulting mud) are largely done for the year, and the temperatures haven't yet climbed into the unbearably hot range.
Missing the undulating grass, we're trying our best to make up for the lack of Owyhee time last year with a bit more this year. After our first trip into the Nevada Owyhee's just a few days earlier, we're headed back to the Idaho side to spend a bit of time slowing down. We'll revisit a couple places we've been - and enjoyed - as well as a few new spots where we'll revel in the history of the homesteads that once dotted the landscape.
And, hopefully, we'll finally get to meet Kenny, a man I can only describe as "a generous guy who has graciously shared more than I could have ever hoped to learn about Owyhee." For years, he and I have been hoping that our trips to this favorite region of ours will overlap. We've had a few near misses. This time, though, I think we've finally got it!
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