Whispering Waters Bed and Breakfast Priest Lake

... during the gold rush) we found an Elk Farm. There they were on the side of the road as if they were cattle....there were lots of them and they were BIG. We know some of you would have been in your glee.

The roads were great and the drive to Sandpoint was excellent. Could have kept going......
Staying at the Quality Inn. Great room for a great price. Walked to a local pub....Eichart's ( Putting the fun in disfunctional). Great food, great ...

The house is a mess and I can't sleep. We are preparing to leave on our first snowbird adventure. As would be expected things are taking longer to get done than planned and disorganization is the rampant. Dan took our car to Spokane to get the tow hitch installed and we hope to leave Sandpoint on Wednesday 10/8 with the coach to get hooked back up with the car. Towing a car behind 36 feet of house is ...

Today we planned to ride up Windy Ridge, the east side of Mt St Helens. The day started with a great ride up highway 503, a nice road that follows a winding river. For all you riders out there, river roads are the best. The road up Windy Ridge is excellent, lots of curves and good elevation changes, with nice views of the east side of the mountain and the surrounding forest. The ...

It's my birthday and we didn't manage to find ourselves a parade. Jude seems to think that the parades would be easier to find on the west coast. This morning we went to Tweedies Diner, which is the diner used in the film Twin Peaks, we will have to get the movie out to see if we recognize anything. Breakfast was a hoot - Jude ordered a stack of pancakes, however the waitnress advised that a short stack would be sufficient ...

... a cabin that had been transformed into a restaurant. they made a deliciously greasy cheesesteak that made great fuel for the rest of the day's ride. shortly after leaving ione, we crossed a bridge and followed the pend oreille river upstream for almost 45 miles. this was a really pretty stretch of road, but also unfortunately was our first taste of headwinds on the trip. before owning a bicycle, i had no idea of what a huge role aerodynamics play with ...

On Wednesday, May 7, Don and Loretta stopped in Sandpoint, Idaho to have dinner with Ken and Christy Dart, parents of Miranda Bodus, one of our members. Ken and Christy are a very congenial couple and generous, too! They paid for the Stevensons' dinner and breakfast, and put them up in the Quality Inn as well! I've attached some photos that Christy emailed after their meeting. See ...

... It's likely that he will walk past Sandpoint, but the parents of one of the Pacin' Parson Group members, Miranda Bodus, have offered to buy them dinner and a room for the night in Sandpoint. Miranda's parents work on the estate of Dr. Forrest Bird, the inventor of the medical respirator. Read about Dr. Bird at wikipedia.com.

... that was on wasn't so small and proceeded to the next town which also had no rooms. We were told to check in Spokane which was an hour away over the state line. After checking hotels in a third town with no rooms we finally had some luck when Heather put on a Oscar-winning performance in the lobby of a hotel that had just turned us away and the woman behind the counter called a hotel in a town called Kellogg that had rooms. The drive was another 45 ...

I tell myself I'm really not asleep, but only a moment ago I was looking at the city of Spokane, and now the station outside looks different, there's a lake, lights reflecting on the water there, I check my map. The next stop Sandpoint, Idaho, we're there, I think. In Idaho. I don't wake Andrew. Just soak it up dear grandson, soak a little Idaho into your dreams.

October 1st and 2nd Glacier National Park, Montana Through Sandpoint and on to To Priest Lake, Idaho On Monday morning we headed for Sandpoint, Idaho. The highlight of the drive was the Bull River Valley just west of the Cabinet Mountains, a valley of pristine meadows with spectacular mountain vistas, and the surprise of the day was Libby, Montana, a mill town which just seemed "real". Both are pretty remote, even for western Montana ...