Best Western Edgewater Sandpoint

... off and ended up on "Da Rock". <br><br>There was one bright spot where a rainbow was over the mountains...not sure you could see it in the pictures.<br><br>Somewhere between Fairmont and Kimberley (Canal Flats??) we found the reason for living in BC. It went from being 14 to 27 degrees in less than 2 minutes. NO KIDDING!!! We both asked if the other felt warmer at about the same time......weirdest thing ever!! <br><br>From there on the weather was 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 ...

We left the great state of Washington and headed east. Haley was keen to see Cor de Lane and an amusement park near this quaint Idaho town. We stayed a night at Farragut State Park just North of Cour de Lane. It was pretty late ...

... took a bit of a detour off the highway onto a less busy road, and headed south for a bit. This was a beautiful drive along a valley up in the National Forest. We were not successful in finding a free camp so we went to a National Forest Service campsite for $10 a night and swam in a lake, lit a big roaring fire and had dinner with the mozzies! They're bad here man!

... to take us with them - bummer! We made our way through to Coeur d'Alene were we had planned on spending the night - they have firewords on the lake, so we thought it would be a great way to spend the birthdays girls birthday! However when we got there there was no room in the inn! Big down great motels, but apparently the whole distict moves in for the fireworks. We continued our journey and ended up staying in Sandpoint ...

... motion. a little bit of wind at your front or back makes an enormous difference... a light wind can help push you forward or backward by up to 3 mph or so. therefore, pushing into a headwind over a long period of time is tiring and annoying. plus, it's noisy with the wind in your ears and you can't hear the cars coming up behind as well. not fun! well, to combat the headwind, we started to be a little naughty... although we signed papers saying we wouldn't ...

... 34 for information about the Darts' employer, Dr. Forrest Bird. Both Ken and Christy have joined the Pacin' Parson Yahoo Group, so you can ask them questions about Dr. Bird or about the paradise by Lake Pend Oreille that they call home. The Bonner County Daily Bee interviewed Don and Loretta during this visit and published an article on May 15: http://www.pacinparson.org/bee.html

... and in the opposite direction in which we had been traveling. We finally arrived abit after 11pm checked in and went straight to bed. It was a shame we only used it for a place to crash for the night as the hotel was brand new and was a really classy establishment. We got the next morning, grab our breakfast on the go from MacDonalds and head back towards to Silverwood Amusement park doing a bit of shopping (and my regular trip to a Costco store) along the way ...

... local (third or fourth generation) 'Irish' vote using a green shamrock as her logo. But my favourite was the guy called Stormy who was standing for Justice of the Peace. Outside the motels lining Interstate 2 billboards competed to offer the best deal on hunting expeditions. I stopped into one that advertised Internet services. The clerk told me that Libby is one of the remotest towns in the United States and produced a map to support his assertion. A swathe of green ...