Selkirk Lodge At Schweitzer Mountain Sandpoint

... 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. <br><br>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.

... Spokane, Washington, that I thought, "What if Washington and Idaho were to merge into a single state? Would they call is Washaho?" Hmm, sounds more like a charity event... I stopped for the night in Sandpoint, Idaho - a resort town on a lake here in the Rockies. I'm staying in a severely overpriced Best Western but the bed is comfy and the view is spectacular. Today's mileage: 808km

It's my birthday and we didn't manage to find ourselves a parade. Jude seems to think that the parades would be easier to find on the west coast. This morning we went to Tweedies Diner, which is the diner used in the film Twin Peaks, we will have to get the movie out to see if we recognize anything. Breakfast was a hoot - Jude ordered a stack of pancakes, however the waitnress advised that a short stack would be sufficient ...

... asking brad if he had seen it when suddenly we saw a live turtle on the shoulder of the road jump in surprise as our bikes zoomed past. there were a number of marshy spots along the river, and with them came a lot of turtles. we didn't see too many more dead ones, but quite a few living ones. i was hoping to come up with a "why did the turtle cross the road?" joke... julie stopped to save one of them, and we named him skookum after a nearby RV park (and ...

... 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

Total miles to date: 10,150 On Tuesday, May 6, Don and Loretta made it into Idaho and stopped just east of Priest River. They went back to Newport to stay for the night at The Walden House Bed and Breakfast (www.thewaldenhouse.com), where they were hosted by Farren and Jolene Walden. From their website: "The Walden House ...

... of people were on the road leading to a large line up at the border crossing. This did give us sometime to jump out in pairs and check out the duty free shop on the side of the road. After just over an hour wait we crossed the border and headed into in the USA. We then proceeded to Sandpoint (2hr drive) and had a bit of a walk around the town before looking for somewhere to stay the night. After checking out about 4 hotels we realised this small town music ...

... and the last vestiges of pink drained from the sky. Across the still blue waters to the south rose a dark wooded bluff - part of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains - while to the north and east, a rolling ridge stretched up the valley beyond a low band of pine. On my return to camp I got chatting to Pat, a hunter from Ohio, and accepted his offer of a ride to the nearest bar. He'd just got back from five days in the hills where he'd been stalking black bear. He'd seen nine bears ...