Holiday Inn Sandpoint North Ponderay

... scream in harmony as the bike blew into the other lane and on coming traffic. Todd says he has never driven in winds that bad. "scared the bejesus out of him". ( and a great laugh over a beer at supper). The ride to the boarder was breezy but warm.

Once across the boarder the weather and scenery was fantastic. We stopped at the beginning of the Wild Horse Scenic By-way and between there and Bonner's Ferry (this was the staging point for the ...

... new challenge for me - wish me more than luck - PRAY! We will head for Oregon first to visit our sisters. My sister Myrna is in Salem and Dix's sister Jean is in Grants Pass. Then we will head south on I 5. You are all invited to travel with us and share our joys and probably some trials as we make our way to Arizona and Texas. We hope to see a lot of great country and will share our pics with you.

... we arrived so we went for a quick bike ride. We saw lots of deer and picked out seven Rocky Mountain goats in the bluffs above the lake. That was all we saw of Farragut as we headed off early the next morning towards Canada.

... in the visitors centre, so we figured that this must have been where the movie was made. It was strange that I didn't have any idea but I had somehow recognised it from years ago! We will have to watch the movie when we get back to see if it was actually there. We also crossed a suspension bridge a bit further down the river before heading back to the car park ...

... bumpy - I left my seat more than once. This is where I parted company with Mike and Brigitte and struck east on my own. And where I found the heat... The interior of Washington, much like BC, is very desert like, including the temperatures. My bike thermometer (in Fahrenheit) quickly registered 100F and stayed that way for over 6 hours! It was as my brain was baking while driving ...

... for the local area. We go drenched from the spray of the falls so went into the resort located at the falls to dry ourselves off. Saw an idea for our garden - amazing what you find in gift shops overhere! After the falls we started making our way over to Spokane - we traveled on the interstate and the facilities at the rest stops along the way were simply amazing. Chated to some very nice fellows on Harleys - couldn't get ...

today was an exciting day because we crossed our first state line! although we would have to cross back into washington in order to pick up the highway, we camped just across the idaho border for the evening. today's ride was the longest to date, both for me and the trip. i was a bad boy and didn't train with super-long distances... the ride started off with some fairly tough rolling hills as we pedaled over a range of hills. it wasn't a mountain pass, but ...

On Wednesday, May 7, Don and Loretta stopped in Sandpoint, Idaho to have dinner with Ken and Christy Dart, parents of Miranda Bodus, one of our members. Ken and Christy are a very congenial couple and generous, too! They paid for the Stevensons' dinner and breakfast, and put them up in the Quality Inn as well! I've attached some photos that Christy emailed after their meeting. See ...

... and Breakfast is our family home of over 6,000 square feet, where we have enjoyed raising our 15 children... Take a stroll and visit nearby Pend Oreille River." This morning a man by the name of George Douglas bought the Stevensons' breakfast in Priest River. Today the rain is pouring down, but Don plods on toward ...

I've done it, the 7-hour Greyhound trip-of-doom everyone grimaces about. Well, it wasn't necessarily the time of my life, but I really didn't mind the open scenery - quite a shock after coming out of rush-hour Seattle. So, here I am at the "RANCH" for a short stay. Horses, dogs, cats: you name it, they have it. Well, not the farm animals, just the "comfort animals" that greet you ...