A few years ago, the writer Dave Eggers was on vacation in Idaho with his family.

It's a trip they've made many times before.

And as they were driving along the highway, Dave noticed a house.

We'd be passing it for years, unknowingly.

It's off a highway 75.

And if you just keep going out toward Bellevue, you see this house on your right.

And it does look a little different because you don't see a lot of sort of queen and

styled delicate, ornate older houses in the state in general.

So it does strike you.

It's like, huh, I wonder what the deal is there?

And after looking at it just as maybe, you know, just curious passers-by, I looked into

the history of it and then found out the very strange story of how it was built.

I'm Dylan Thurus, and this is Atlas Obscura, the celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, I am talking with Dave Eggers about that house in Idaho, but the family that lived

in it and how they made what is perhaps one of the strangest, slowest house moves in history.

Before we got any further into the conversation, there was something I really needed to ask.

Dave, what is going on with you in Idaho?

I have been going there for 23 years now, and it's only more recently that I sort of started

writing about it, and I love the state.

It's gorgeous and totally unlike what I thought it was growing up when all you hear about

is potatoes, and that's partly their fault.

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