Blogs from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States, North America - page 2

We are now sitting in the Wallace Inn which appropriately is located in Wallace, Idaho. This is night two (May 20th) of our Bitter Root loop bike trip. We had planned to cycle from Plummer on the Coeur d'Alene (Cda) trail to Mullan, then up over the Lookout Pass to the trail of the Hiawatha and down to Avery , returning to Ste Maries, Id. We have done about 65 miles so far which was over one third of what was intended. However things are unraveling as the Hiawatha trail is still under 5 feet of snow. The new plan is to head back the way we came and return another time to finish the trip. To add insult to injury, the forecast is for rain so our next three days may be a bit less ... read more

Monday July12th Daily Information High temp: 75 degrees Low temp: 46degrees WIND 40mph all day gusting to 60 SORRY NO PICTURES TODAY - SAND AND DUST STORM Campground Elevation: 65 above sea level Highest Elevation: 4640 above sea level Lowest Elevation: 164 above sea level Traveled 380 miles Departed 8:45PDT Weather cool, foggy, chilly, sunny with dust storm later Highlights Mt. Adams to the North Mt. Jefferson to the South Mt. Hood now behind us Wine and Lavender Country Back running along the Gorge for 120 miles Kite and Wind surfing on the extremely windy, gnarly, Columbia River - Crazy! Major dust storms and range fires closing interstate for a time Entered Washington at 12:10PDT, the Evergreen State Saw my first Tumbling Tumbleweed Tumble We blew into Idaho at 4:10PDT Arrived at campground 4:25PDT ... read more

Today we drove out around 9am. We had to stop by my storage unit and load all the rest of the itmes. First on the way to the storage unit I had to take the big truck down a "orange cone" course. Only took out one....not bad. The truck has no power. Dad called me from the truck behind me and told me to press the gas...hahaha...yea like I wasn't doing that. Literally I was going 25 over the mountain pass. Guess I am too heavy. You can actually watch the gas gage move...and when you fill it with Diesel you can actually watch my heart stop when the pump reaches $100.... read more

Heyburn State Park, near St. Marie, Idaho Wed Sept 2-Fri Sept 4: As we pulled out of Hells Gate Sate Park, we stopped at the Visitor Center and saw some wonderful wildlife exhibits and a 20 minute video of the travels through Idaho of Lewis and Clark, assisted by the young Indian woman Sacajawea. How on earth they persevered is just amazing to me, up over Lolo Pass and on and on. For those of you unfamiliar with the story of Sacajawea, when she was a young girl, her people, the Shoshone of what is now western Montana, had been raided by another group of Indians and many were killed. She was kidnapped and force-marched east hundreds of miles to North Dakota where she was kept as a slave. When she got older she was married ... read more

Friday August 28 We left Wanatchee and continued our drive across Washington. That afternoon we stopped at the Spokane Airport to pick up Maxanne and Billy. Then we drove on to the Roosevelt Inn in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The Inn is the site of Deb and Mikes wedding and is filling up with family members. The city of Coeur d’Alene a city of 40,000 residents sits in the center of the Idaho Panhandle and along the shore of the lake with the same name. It’s the largest city in northern Idaho. Coeur d'Alene was a French name given to the local Schee-Chu-Umsh Indians by early French-speaking trappers in the 1790s. The city’s waterfront is dominated by the Coeur d’Alene Golf and Spa Resort. This fifteen-story lakefront resort sits on piles 5’ above the lake. Lake Coeur ... read more