Travel Blogs from Spokane, United States
Solar World
... 2 and 395, which, according to their website, "provides temporary corporate housing and executive furnished housing in the Spokane, Washington area." They will also rent available suites nightly. Linda, the manager, is a Christian. She gets surgery ...
Westward bound, once again
... , west, west. All uphill, what a climb, to Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, then downhill into Washington State. Spent almost two hours trying to find Riverside State Park in the city of Spokane, finally set up the camper and tried to settle down for the night. ...
What a nice surprise!
... ! Was quite tired after the drive, and was pleasantly surprised by the nice hotel, I'd booked. Great views over the river in Spokane. The only reason I choose to stay in Spokane, was because it was on the way, and just somewhere to crash out after ...
Hello from Spokane
... I figured the best way to make myself feel better is to jump right into the next thing. So I started a painting company in Spokane. It is called Superior Painting and we will be doing residential re-paints. I am looking at paint-sprayers right now and ...
Best Ice Cream: Spokane
... , Allison, with the aid of Yelp for the Palm Pre, tracked down a terrific ice cream shop called Scoop just south of downtown Spokane. It's in a great neighborhood and they had the best flavors, better than any we had on the whole trip (and that was a ...
Gonzos
... the Gonzaga campus with Lisa and Patrick, and took the silver bullet in for maintanence. On our final day in Spokane, Pete and I decided to change things up a bit. The Riverside Park in Spokane is a year-round attraction ...
Days 34, 35 Yellowstone and HOME!
Total Miles Driven: 9060 Total Hours Driving: 182 Total States: 27 + DC (a couple of them twice) Tourist Activities: Driving through Yellowstone and watching Old Faithful do her thing. Surprise: SNOW, on the 7th and 8th of June! We loved ...
Final Entry
August 1 We're Back!!!!!!! Hope you enjoyed our blog. We had fun doing it. We appreciate everyone's comments. Made our trip more fun. We want you to know we wouldn't have done it without the persuasion of Linda and Claudia to go ahead and do it. We ...
Glacier National to Spokane, Washington
... to be getting some sort of bad eye infection and thus we had to go to a local doctor for 3 hrs. Thankfully she's fine. BTW! Spokane....is beautiful! This is an unsung gem of Washington State. The city is clean, there are waterfalls and riverfront parks, ...
Wyoming to Washington
... with canyons filled with water. We shot quickly through Idaho into Washington State, where we spent the night in Spokane. Hooray, civilization as we city dwellers know it started again! The sign that we had entered the 'first world', was ...
laughter and tears!
Ahhhh' Home sweet SpoCompton, errrr..SpoVegas, I mean Spokane, Washington. Just kidding, mom and dad, part of my heart will always love with you in Spokane. Well it was quite a busy week with the packing and moving and goodbyes. I am so lucky to have ...
Tour of the city
... the woods 'til we saw several wildland firetrucks with lights on and figured we didn't want to become crispy critters so we went into spokane a day earlier than planned. Lucky for us Nick and Sara (and Sara's visiting folks) were happy to have us : ) We ...
Big ride day 1
... different scenery, more farmland but there was a canyon in the distance and a dammed lake closer, very cool. We eventually made it to Spokane (Spo-kaan rather than Spo-ka-ne) at around 4:30 (after a stop at a little coffee stand as I was starting to nod ...
Patience...
... winterizing their coaches. Bad timing. Feeling frustrated, we took a break on the Centennial Trail, through Gonzaga University and downtown Spokane. Spokane's claim to fame was hosting the 1974 Expo. What we really remember is the swarms of insects on the ...
Little Switzerland - or how it once was!
How fast everything can change. Two days after my last entry I was close to just copy/paste the entry for this one. Luckily too many things changed in the last few days so that I have to hammer on my keyboard. After Yellowstone I drove through beautiful ...
Northern Cali, Oregon and Beyond!
... was excellent. We headed away from the coast and drove through the beautiful lush forests of Oregon and Washington and finally got back into some heat. We had to be in Spokane to pick up our new car!! Now it's back to ...
...it's the Journey
... who live in the area are first wearing rain suits and second know where you’re going advise you to put it on, it’s a no brainer. Suited up I proceed to Spokane, Washington. Soon I will leave this rainy climate and venture ...
Jellystone and the Bison
... drive east because we wanted to get on the road early enough to have enough time to get to our destination for the night: Spokane Valley, WA. Our original goal was Missoula, MT, but after thinking about the logistics, I didn't want the snowday to ...
Day 2 - Spokane, WA to Missoula, MT
Mom woke us up at what morgan and I thought was an incredibly early hour...7am! Mom told us that we all had to excercise every day which consisted of us running around the truckstop a bunch of times and doing lots of bootcamp exercises!. That ...
One week of constant fellowship!
... son Steve and his girlfriend. Wendy, Cindy and Julie have been to Russia, too, and we actually met during numerous Calvary Spokane outreaches in Russia. Wendy's son Steve came to Russia once, too. If you haven't heard about it, there are approximately 60 ...
Ice ice baby
Highlights: The novelty of being snowed on Lowlights: Driving on ice - really not ...
Empyrean
Two of my lovely friends, Rachel and Ali, both recently visited Spokane. The three of us decided to get together at a fun local coffeehouse. As it turned out, it was open mic night at our chosen establishment. When we arrived, a stout young man was ...
Network Failure
They took away my internet at work. "They", as Jack Black would say, are "the man". The evil library heads. The snarky technology guys that live amongst a tangle of wires in the basement of the library. They rarely emerge; it seems their only purpose ...
Detained in Spokane
... the bike over to the shop so they could get started first thing in the morning, and we could sleep in. Interesting note about Spokane, the Denny’s that shares the hotel parking lot, has a lounge. Yes, Denny’s serves booze. We were quite amused ...
Because I can
... back to school, but I still don't know what for. I could put some money down on a house, but that would mean I would stay in spokane for the next 10 years. Or I could save up some money and hit the road. Ever since my trip to Europe I have been wanting ...

