Sunday & Monday, September 8 & 9 2013
As Libby is only about 35 miles from the western border of Montana, we entered Idaho and Pacific Time late Sunday morning. The weather was cool, overcast and everything felt damp but it is supposed to improve and we are bound to see the sights and enjoy the ride. Our first town in Idaho was Bonner's Ferry and from there we headed to a town called Sandpoint. I had read good things about the city and it seemed like a nice place, but there was a ton of road construction wherever you went. In the afternoon, the weather cleared and it ended up being a warm and comfortable 75 degrees. We continued our drive and ended up in Coeur d'Alene for the night. We chose the Wolf Lodge Campground as our resting place, having traveled 200 miles. Coeur d'Alene is one of the most highly populated cities in Idaho with ~44,000 people. It is a very pretty resort town with a huge lake surrounded by the mountains. We drove around the lake as we were leaving the next morning and it seemed like it never ended. Up, down and around for over 30 miles. It was very beautiful with lots of fancy homes built into the mountain sides.
Monday was another 200-miler with us continuing to head south through the mountainous canyon areas. We are choosing "scenic byways" as we plot our course and have been thrilled with the results. We have never seen mountains like some of those we are seeing in Idaho. We were on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation for most of the afternoon, riding along the beautiful Clearwater River. It got very hot out here again today with temps in the very high 80s. Both of us were very warm. We put away the rainsuits and sweats and went back to T-shirts! These are long days of driving for Rick. Two hundred miles doesn't sound like a lot but when they are through the mountains, with all the twisting and turning, it's a lot. He's been a real trooper. We chose the town of Kamiah to stay overnight and we slept like rocks. It's still happy trails.
Happy Trails.
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