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... one more party tonight, then we're off in the morning for Salt Lake City, our first 10 hour leg.<br>But tonight we get to eat off Linda's 10# rainbow she snuck out and caught without us. DANG her hide. She really is our hero though--the Fish Dancer extraordinaire.<br>Rick's cooking a gourmet feast, the divas are gathering--husbands beware!

... dogs on (verbal) leashes in the woods -- National Parks do not. It dropped below freezing the first night and snow magically appeared on the higher mountains the next day.<br><br>Then horror, while we were packing Bogie cried/yelped while chasing a squirrel up a tree and came back to us on three legs. We were lucky finding a good vet that said he likely had a bad sprain on his right front leg (up to two weeks of being a gimp - if ...

Kalispell is actually starting to feel like home away from home! The mechanic ran into delays, truck won't be ready till Wednesday, so we are catching up with laundry, grocery shopping, haircuts, and resting. Wondering what we'll find when we open up the trailer after this long week. Need to get re-organized before we head west again. <br>

... us a loaner, we will leave the camper at the dealership for the week and we will head towards Canada in this red Corolla. Drive through Banff and Jasper? Try to find V's distant cousin that we've been wanting to meet for over 25 years? Looking on the map, they live waaayy up north in British Columbia. What the heck! Maybe we'll just go for it!<br>

Glacier National Park is fantastic. The highway, named "Into The Sun<br>Highway" (exactly what we were doing!), hugs the mountainside, dips<br>into valleys and brings you up through glorious passes. It's like a 50<br>km scenic roller coaster ride. Wheeeee!

Lake Koocanusa - Kootenai National Forest - Driving through forests<br>older than time, glimpsing sparkling rivers through the trees and<br>suddenly coming upon the lake, which is very long and narrow. Clear<br>water, clear air, lots of space, friendly towns. Then on through Eureka and towards Whitefish, where we hope to find a nice ...

Short stop at Belgrade, on the road, then up to this beautiful lake. The Flathead River's various forks crossed our paths several times while in Montana. Boating/resort towns all along the lake front, quiet beaches, tall forests of pine and birch. Very relaxing!<br>

... though were majestic and massive. They are the redwoods of New Zealand. Our final stop was at Cathedral Cove, which is a huge cavernous limestone cave. It is also a major tourist attraction, but we showed up just after all the tourists buses left, so we had the place to ourselves in the evening light. Becca and I parted ways the next day in Auckland. She flew directly home but I made a stopover in Fiji with Asa, Zach, and ...

... were in a sleeper cabin on Amtrak, we were considered "first class passengers." We got a special fancy lounge in Chicago, champagne and other treats on board, and our own first-class car attendant. We also were four of about 32 passengers on the sleeper car, compared to over 100 in a coach car - if everyone traveled by train the way we did on the Empire Builder, it would not be a lower-carbon choice. It felt strange to be singled out and treated more "specially" than other ...

... at the inn? Details: People-magnet Riverside Park in the heart of Spokane, WA On to Riverside Park in Spokane for a stroll and late lunch. We read that Riverside Park was originally designed by the Olmsted family of landscape architects, the same folks that did Central Park, Bok Tower Gardens and the Biltmore grounds, The plan was not implemented ...