White Pine Lodge At Schweitzer Mountain Sandpoint

... off and ended up on "Da Rock". <br><br>There was one bright spot where a rainbow was over the mountains...not sure you could see it in the pictures.<br><br>Somewhere between Fairmont and Kimberley (Canal Flats??) we found the reason for living in BC. It went from being 14 to 27 degrees in less than 2 minutes. NO KIDDING!!! We both asked if the other felt warmer at about the same time......weirdest thing ever!! <br><br>From there on the weather was great ...

... 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.

... on this side was as extensive as the volcano blast was directed west and north. The ride came to a premature end though and the road was blocked off after only 4 miles. Apparently the heavy snowfall completely washed the road away. Oh well - I did get a short video of the ride back down. We carried on to Randle; this section of road was horrible - the pavement is very chewed up ...

... to take us with them - bummer! We made our way through to Coeur d'Alene were we had planned on spending the night - they have firewords on the lake, so we thought it would be a great way to spend the birthdays girls birthday! However when we got there there was no room in the inn! Big down great motels, but apparently the whole distict moves in for the fireworks. We continued our journey and ended up staying in Sandpoint ...

... motion. a little bit of wind at your front or back makes an enormous difference... a light wind can help push you forward or backward by up to 3 mph or so. therefore, pushing into a headwind over a long period of time is tiring and annoying. plus, it's noisy with the wind in your ears and you can't hear the cars coming up behind as well. not fun! well, to combat the headwind, we started to be a little naughty... although we signed papers saying we wouldn't ...

... 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

... 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 ...

... raft to rise right to the top edge of the slide. It felt like you were about to fall out of your seat into the lap of the person opposite you which for me was one of the unfortunate visitors who joined us (and was much smaller then me). We all were able to hang on till the end with no crashes or injuries. Once we had dried off we jumped back in the car and drove the 4 hours back across the border to Fernie, Canada hence spending just over 24 hrs in the USA. Mick

... late-afternoon sunlight that mirrored the mountains onto the surface of the river's muddy waters. Once in a while a car would pass by, as if to remind me that, somewhere out there, the rest of the world was still in train. As the highway fell away I rolled down through a succession of hairpin bends and into a deep ravine from which I emerged into a broad valley just as the sun dipped behind a distant ridge. In the woods above Cabinet Gorge Reservoir, half a mile from the ...