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A few years back I was takin' my Mother to Montana to visit her Brother and his wife. This would also allow me some prime Cutthroat fishin' in their irrigation ditches in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains...Headin' east on I-84 about halfway between Boise and Mountain Home we ran into a plugged up Freeway, traffic stopped cold, in a line over the horizon. As it happend I could make a right turn and get to the nearby off ramp. Got off the Freeway and took a look at the map and found a grey road that went south then east and connected to another grey road that went back north to I-85 at Mountain Home..."Great! Mom we can get around this mess...Lets go." So off we went after about a half hour of drivn' on dirt we see a sign sayin' "Entering Mountain Home AF Base".. I started thinkin' "oops!" maybe we won't get there from here. Kept going anyway..after another 20 minutes or so I could see a bunch of Humvees and APC's off in the distance with some "Troops" runnin' around...Next thing I saw was a "Caution Live Fire Zone Ahead"..UH, OH ! Now what!?? About that time a Humvee came over the hill and pulled up.. the driver kinda' gave me a "look".. so I asked them whether or not I could get where I wanted to go...The somewhat terse answer was "Yeah but probably not in one piece!" With that, I turned around and beat it back to the freeway which, by the time we got back to it, was free flowing traffic again. It was a "nice drive" and beat sittin' on the freeway for about two hours. Sometime those "grey roads" can lead you astray! Never did find out what held up the traffic..Maybe "live fire" ?? Ha!
Mike
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