Quality Inn Spokane

... 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. <br>Not exactly sure yet where we'll meet up with Rose and Jim....probably at LAX before the flight.<br><br><br>

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.

... would win a silver belt buckle.  <br><br>We have to mention at this stage and without fear of offending our American brothers and sisters how flabbergasted Ian and I were with the build up to the Mutton Bustin race.  In the ring was a fit looking cowboy who told everyone to give themselves a round of applause for being here and supporting the fair, then went on to "thank the troops abroad who were fighting to protect America and Americans right to independence, freedom and ...

... from London and having had the luxury of sampling some of the best restaurants in the world, our expectations were not that high.  The chef was leaving the next day to start a bistro in San Francisco so he was excited at what he had prepared for us.  He introduced each course with a tantalising description told us how he had done what and why (working with corn so it does not get too sweet").  We sampled corn chowder which was light and fluffy, had our ...

... 3 14th which is a 170 yard (it&#8217;s on a pulley system where they can vary the length of the green from the mainland!) 7 iron onto a man made island green which you get to and from on a boat called &#8220;The Putter&#8221;. What a hole and what an amazing course. American golf at its best where they think of everything including fans on greens to cool you down and ...

<br>dä 'Glaci** Nationalpark', scho dä feuft park wo mir bsuecht händ. Im unt**schied zu dä and**e, isch dä ab** fascht nöd mit strasse **schlosse, was us min**e sicht zwei grossi vorteil hät. D'natur bliebt unb**ü**t** und äs hät spürbar we***** bsuech**. Diä einzig strass wo dur dä park fü**t isch däfür umso imposant** und gseht us wiä in b**g inegschnitzt. Im gägesatz zu dä pass-strasse bi eus, händs da kei 180 grad ...

... roads and small highways. The mountains rolled into hills, the hills into lush forests as we neared the Idaho border. Of course, by this point we were low on gas so we pulled into a little mom and pop gas station on some little known Montana road. I was pumping the gas when I heard a man's voice behind me say, "Hey boy, I can sell you there a can of spray paint to cover up that license plate of yours....people around here might think you ...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We had to travel to Spokane so that we could fly home. I guess it was the closest major airport to where our last show was. This is a picture of Tom and Steve who were both on the Nashville flight home. They made Tom check his dobro case, but he wasn't about the check the instrument, so he just stuck it right in the seat. Home here we come!

... week. John had chicken pasta, and Kia and Mel shared a Thai chicken wrap. Things did not turn out so well with the chicken wrap. One of the ingredients in it was rice, and in the words of Mel, "the rice is uncooked...it tastes like I am eating shards of glass." Never a good sign. Mel did not want to be "one of THOSE customers", but we all assured her that if there ever was a good reason for complaining at a restaurant, it most certainly involved the ingestion ...