[81alum]

It’s amazing to me that I’m in Idaho at the moment, and Pullman is still 10 hours away.

I grew up in Idaho (southern) and Moscow/Pullman might as well have been on the other side of the planet.  Highway 95 which connected the south with the north was a long, windy, mountainous 2 lane highway that did not fully connect until after WWII.  Whitebird Hill and Lewiston Hill on that highway each had multiple hairpin switchbacks, and driving those roads in the winter was perilous.

As a result, northern Idaho has always been economically linked to the Spokane region, with which it shares the same time zone, while southern Idaho is a place and a time zone apart.

The other highway carnage worth mentioning in this context was the 10 mile highway from Pullman to Moscow (Tara's original coaching job was at the University of Idaho.)  For years Idaho had a lower drinking age than Washington, leading to hoards of college students driving that highway from Pullman to Moscow to get to the Idaho bars.  In the winter, with black ice common, on a two lane road and mixed with alcohol--countless tragedies.  The national drinking age in 1989 at least put an end to that.

[81alum]

It’s amazing to me that I’m in Idaho at the moment, and Pullman is still 10 hours away.

I grew up in Idaho (southern) and Moscow/Pullman might as well have been on the other side of the planet.  Highway 95 which connected the south with the north was a long, windy, mountainous 2 lane highway that did not fully connect until after WWII.  Whitebird Hill and Lewiston Hill on that highway each had multiple hairpin switchbacks, and driving those roads in the winter was perilous.

As a result, northern Idaho has always been economically linked to the Spokane region, with which it shares the same time zone, while southern Idaho is a place and a time zone apart.

The other highway carnage worth mentioning in this context was the 10 mile highway from Pullman to Moscow (Tara's original coaching job was at the University of Idaho.)  For years Idaho had a lower drinking age than Washington, leading to hoards of college students driving that highway from Pullman to Moscow to get to the Idaho bars.  In the winter, with black ice common, on a two lane road and mixed with alcohol--countless tragedies.  The national drinking age in 1989 at least put an end to that.