Holiday Inn Express Suites Cheney

My friend Diane just reminded me that I hadn't finished the story with the jade earrings. Here is a photo of the finished product. I love them. The jade is actually a very pale green color (all jade starts out white and is affected by other minerals as to the colors). The settings are silver and I am very happy with them indeed.

... br> Leaving Saturday for L.A. where I'll meet up with Terry Chamorro and stay at her place Saturday night. Sunday morning we have a 7:45am flight out of LAX which means going to the airport at 5:45am. Ungodly time. We are flying on Mexicana Airlines via Mexico City to Guatemala City.
Not exactly sure yet where we'll meet up with Rose and Jim....probably at LAX before the flight.

Finally got the truck back, all fixed and running beautifully. Decided to get on the road, though it was already 2 pm. Headed south along Flathead Lake through green forests and valleys to I-90, then west, 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.

... gmacht sond**n händ eifach kilomet**wiis em b**g nah däruf baut.

Churz vorem idunkle hämm** hööch üb**eme see en bär entdeckt wo det go fische isch. Er hät sini büüti as uf** bracht und gnüsslich v**schlunge. Eus hät ** üb**haupt nöd beachtet, sind v**muetlich zwiit weg gsi und drum hämm** eus mittel steiwurf (kei angscht, nöd diräkt uf ihn) für äs foti vo vorne bem**kbar gmacht. Nachh** isch ** abzottlet ...

... have my gmail account (ivhannan@gmail.com)
and facebook (www.facebook.com/ingrid.hannan)
and skype: my ID is ingrid.hannan
so you can contact me those ways as well!

My address:
Apdo. Postal 830
San Pedro de Macorís
Dominican Republic

Please write letters! I will write ...

... construction (oops) but just before we made it out of Idaho into Washington we had a slight delay for road repaving. We can tell we are in Washington...every corner has a coffee/expresso house.

I AM BACK IN AT&T LAND AND IN CONSTANT WIRELESS CONTACT. I got a text from AT&T about a week ago that my wireless useage was violating my contract. Seems I don't really have unlimited ...

... and a few lovely stops on the way home, we finally arrived back in Seattle to complete our Rock and Road around the US! We had a pile of errands to run to get ready for our next segments ...

... br>
Montana was "big sky country" for a reason ! Rolling lush hills seperate the miles of grazing land from the huge snowpeaked mountains ! I love it here ! We stayed at the Missoula KOA and enjoyed a much needed break in their great pool afterwards celebrating with fresh corn on the cob and watermelon ! We are slowly developing our travel groove with each other in a small space !
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This is going to be a short entry (whew).

Well we woke up this morning to, guess what, more rain and cold. Jen was so cold that it took about 30 minutes in the car for her to fully warm up. So, if you ever go to Glacier National Park...dress warmly!!!

We left around 8am for Spokane, Washington as a stopping point on our ultimate way to Seattle, our first major western terminus. The drive was scenic...cutting through backcountry ...

Greetings from Washington, We continued our journey northwest across the northern tip of Idaho and stopped for a few days in Cheney, WA. Our house was parked in eastern Washington, because our destination was Coeur D'Alene, ID and we could not find a cheap campsite nearby. We hiked around Tubbs Hill Park and were treated with a nice view of the city at the top of the hill. On our way down I turned on to what looked like a continuation of the trail, but the further we went the steeper ...