Post by thread:[OT] What to see in Boise Idaho

I, sadly, must go to meet with HP in Boise. What, other than HP, is there in Boise? Anything like a science and industry museum? Steam trains? Old boats? Old cars? Farm tractors, etc... Robots? I really appreciate any advice... --- James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin spam_OUTjamesnewtonTakeThisOuTpiclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com

medium sized CM there named Computrol. They used to make fish finders, but sold that off so now just build for others. James Newtons Massmind <.....jamesnewtonKILLspam@spam@massmind.org> wrote: I, sadly, must go to meet with HP in Boise. What, other than HP, is there in Boise? Anything like a science and industry museum? Steam trains? Old boats? Old cars? Farm tractors, etc... Robots? I really appreciate any advice... --- James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin jamesnewtonKILLspampiclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com

Lets see, > a science and industry museum? No, a children's 'Discovery Center', interesting but pretty tame. > Steam trains? Well, last time I looked there was one on static display in Julia Davis Park, but behind a chain link fence. The Boise Depot is neat 'mission-style' railroad architecture, nicely restored with gardens and good view of the city (but no train on display). The Thunder Mountain Line has a good mountain train ride, but unfortunately not steam http://www.thundermountainline.com/ It's a couple of hours away and would consume a day. There's a place here: http://www.cascaderaft.com/riverraftrail.asp that combines a train ride up, with a whitewater raft trip down. Oh, and MotivePower has a growing business in Boise manufacturing diesel locomotives. > Old boats? Old cars? Not to my knowledge. There is a warbirds aviation museum in Nampa that is pretty neat, and they have regular fly-ins that attract some really interesting ww2 aircraft: http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/ > Farm tractors? Well, the fellow that sits over the cube wall has quite a collection of tractors, other heavy equipment, and (large) diesel engines. Other places, interesting but not on any kind of grand scale: The old Idaho Penitentiary: http://www.idahohistory.net/oldpen.html The Idaho Historical Museum is downtown, and the Idaho Capitol building is ok. The Egyptian theater is a good restoration of 1920's Egyptian revival type architecture; now playing "Nacho Libre". I can get you into Micron Technology, but there's not going to be much to see but miles of hallways. Gary Crowell > {Original Message removed}

> Farm tractors? Well, the fellow that sits over the cube wall has > quite a collection of tractors, other heavy equipment, and (large) > diesel engines. ... And he'll be glad to talk to you about them for hours. and hours, and hours... > > I can get you into Micron Technology, but there's not going to be much > to see but miles of hallways. And you get a bird's eye view of that when you fly in, if your flight lands from the east it passes right overhead. > Gary Crowell > > > > {Original Message removed}

you missed it last weekend....they had the "sweet" celebration...moon boot dance competition, etc.... Marcel duchamp <.....marcel.duchampKILLspam.....sbcglobal.net> wrote: How bout a day trip south to Preston... Yeah, it *is* almost 300 miles each way, but, dang! You could see Napoleon Dynamites' home town! Gosh! >> {Original Message removed}

On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:16 PM, James Newtons Massmind wrote: >> James Newtons Massmind wrote: >>> I, sadly, must go to meet with HP in Boise. >> >> Printers, eh? ;-) >> >> Nate > > I wish. HP Printers are still pretty good. This is about drivers... > Which... > Ok, I'm not allowed to say it. Heh, fair 'nuff. Oh, to answer your question: Potato farms? ;-) Have fun, at least if it's not raining a lot the weather is nice there this time of year. -- Nate Duehr EraseMEnatespam_OUTTakeThisOuTnatetech.com