Why Did the Sheep Cross the Road?

In which I witness a semiannual Idaho tradition — when sheep take over a major roadway on their way to greener pastures. It's an Idaho thing.

Want to learn more? Helpful links:

Andy Little, the “Idaho Sheep King"

Idaho sheep ranchers Frank Shirts and Henry Etcheverry

Boise's Basque Block -- where you can find funky, cozy Bar Gernika  and enjoy the once-every-five-years cultural Basque cultural festival, Jaialdi 


A few more fun quotations about sheep (that aren't insulting to sheep):
We’re a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky. — Alan Abel

Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. — Sue Grafton

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. — Mark Twain

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. — Stendhal

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sheep sound effects courtesy Pixabay Sound