Boise Idaho Area

 


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Boise has a plethora of parks in and around the city and we explored a number of them while there. There is a long string of them along the Boise River downtown. Then there is the Boise River Greenbelt which is about 20 miles long.  It connects the parks and the local areas to provide a great way for people to ride their bicycles into the downtown area. And, there is a large number of people who do abandon cars and ride their bikes into town.

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We also enjoyed a number of really good restaurants. One day we ate lunch at the culinary arts school on the Boise State campus and the food was wonderful and reasonably priced. While in Boise we ate at three restaurants that had been featured on the food networks Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. In fact on this trip we ate a total of 14 places that had been featured on the show.

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Boise has a lot of museums also and we visited; the Boise Art Museum, The Discovery Center, Botanical Gardens, Birds of Prey, Historical Museum and I am sure I am missing a few others. The history museum had a wonderful display on the 150 year history of Idaho. It was so large you could not look at and read all the displays. All in all we were very impressed with Bose. Would we retire there? Hmmmmm

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