We've Been Initiated!

So, you're evidently not a true Idahoan until you've been taken on a secret mission to the wilds to procure that elusive treasure, the official state fruit, the wild huckleberry. When we lived in Sugar City, we heard about everyone's secret patches and the pilgrimages they would take to visit them, but nobody volunteered to divulge the locations of their private stashes. In fact, they guarded their secrets more ferociously than the goblins at Gringotts. We left Sugar feeling a little deprived of the true Idaho experience.

Here in Lyman, however, we were lucky enough to stumble on a friendly (and generous!) neighbor who selflessly agreed to let us accompany her on her family's huckleberry mission. Four hours later, gloriously dirty, scratched and berry-stained, we returned with our precious pint of purple berries which I hurriedly transformed into muffins and a cheesecake before the kids finished them off.

I now can say, I'm a real Idahoan.