Blogs from McCall, Idaho, United States, North America

I dag har Anne og jeg været ude og køre på mountainbike, sammen med Andrew, Michael og John. Det var nogle super gode spor og et kæmpe område at køre i, med en fantastisk natur som ikke lige kan findes mage til i Danmark. Det ligger ca. 3 mil fra vores hytte, men selvfølgelig skal man have en pickup til at køre det frem og tilbage i, så vi fyldte det hele bag i Johns pickup og kørte derud. De cykler vi havde lejet var ikke noget særligt og jeg savnede hurtigt min egen MTB men sådan er det sikkert når man skal prøve at leje cykel fremmede stæder. Da vi kom hjem tog jeg videre og Anne tog en lur, jeg tog med resten af gruppen op til nogle varme kilder hvor man kan bade. ... read more

We really feel relaxed today...took us until 12:30 to get out to do something! We loaded up the kayaks and headed over to an area called the Northwest Passage of Payette Lake that leads to Upper Payette Lake. This passage is closed to motorized boats, so only canoes, kayaks and paddle boards. It was a lot like the thoroughfare at Priest Lake so we really hoped we would see some more wildlife. We did see some Osprey, Heron, ducks (Ryan even used his new Wood Duck call and we came across some wood ducks!) and geese, but no mammals :(. The huge trees along the banks were gorgeous, many of them had fallen into the water and we'd have to navigate around them so we wouldn't poke a hole in our kayaks! Truly this was a ... read more

We left Coeur d'Alene at 8:45am and headed south on I95 for nearly 5 hours through beautiful wheat farmland! It was so pretty, the wheat fields were the perfect color of tan and were Perfectly perfectly on rolling knolls. We drove through some timber and the got to the east side of Hells Canyon that ran along the Salmon River that was filled with river rafters. The temperature through the side of Hells Canyon rose to 100 degrees and reminded us how hot it is suppose to be in hell. Thank Jesus that we are not going to hell! We also drove down some incredibly steep grades...we were all stepping on our brake pedals! Eeek! Jeff is such a good driver and we are in such capable hands between his skills and God's care! We eventually ... read more

Peter og jeg har lånt Jeannie's bil hjem til vores RV og onsdag morgen starter med en lille udfordring. Der er ingen strøm på bilen, men der ligger kabler i bagagerummet, så problemet er ikke så stort. Endnu en dejlig solskinsdag. Ved opgørelsen onsdag aften har vi brugt en del solcreme - 2 hele flasker plus det løse samt en del alovera/after sun. Der bliver badet og sejlet hele dagen. En rigitg feriedag ved søen. Jeg nyder at se hvordan alle vores unger hygger sig sammen. Der er virkelig blevet bekræftet nogle bånd på tværs af grænser her.. Aftensmaden er dansk. Vi besluttede os for at lave frikadeller. Heldigvis var det en succes og ingen blev skræmt af tanken om dansk mad. Forhåbentlig vil nogle komme til Danmark for at stifte bekendskab med flere danske retter. ... read more

Our taxi picked us up at 4.30am from our New York duplex to go to the airport and not surprisingly there was not a lot of enthusiasm amongst the troops for our twelve hours of travelling and two flights to get to Boise, Idaho. Idaho made it on to the itinerary largely due to a request from my Aunt to visit her and it also had the added bonus of a place to get a bit more skiing in before we reach our main skiing destination of Powder Mountain, Utah. None of us were too sure what we would find - but we were very pleasantly surprised. Boise is a low set city of about 300,000 people in a pretty sparsely populated state. In January the landscape is mostly brown, but it is not difficult to ... read more