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Return, Day 13: Missoula, MT to Coeur d'Alene, ID
... scene you expect when you think of Montana: gentle stream, rocky and curving, aspens alongside, and pines behind, marching up the mountains, and those mountains as far as you can see. The wildfire smoke was less obvious in the horizontal morning light.
We passed through the Montana State University Experimental Forest and saw a "Thinning Demonstration Area". Tied in to our continued discussions on this trip about ...
Day 1
300 miles, from Redmond to Post Falls Idaho. Very hazy day today driving through Eastern Washington, we could see multiple fires to the east.
We're heading east fairly quick, the plan is to make Yellowstone by tomorrow. So far so good!
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Back on Pacific time
This morning was a typical camping morning for us, Daddy and Jaxson out for a bike ride while Blaine and Mommy get ready to roll out, the difference today was that we had some extra time on our hands so we were able to bike the Blacktail creek trail with Jaxson, both Daddy and Mommy. It's nice to get out with the boys in the morning while they are fresh and get some exercise and wear off some energy for the long ride ahead. Tire them out, then let them nap during ...
Arrived in Coeur d'Alene
We had a nice shopping trip to Lowe's for the new bbq (Roxie loves walking around Lowe's) and we stopped at Target for a new pancake griddle. Both very important accessories for our trip :)
We tried out our new bbq with a big tri tip roast and it worked beautifully. I am a silly girl, though, because I expected to buy a propane grill that was assembled and ready to use out of the box. NOT! It took us about 45 minutes to put the ...
Kalispell MY to Couer d'Alene ID - 421km
... is a virtue and eventually we find Elk's Cafe serving Elk Burger which puts a smile on Richard's face, pronounced “delicious”. We see a weird sign in the men's loo (Nicola was not in there) - see the photo below??? We arive in Coeur D'Alene on a perfect sunny afternoon and the hotel is fantastic, overlooking a harbour with perfect little boats and a green headland. This makes a change from the brown prison complex-style hotel we have been enjoying ...