Daily Mileage=319; Trip Total=6328
Today we drove from Seattle to a great town called Coeur d' Alene. Before reaching it, we passed through some areas in Washington that had mountains, valleys, ranches and even wineries. We crossed over the famous Columbia River which you do actually see on some wine bottle labels from Washinton state. Coeur d' Alene, is in Idaho not far from Spokane, WA. It was recommended by several folks we met along the way as the place to stay. It's delightful and once again, the poor people do not live here. It's on a great lake (yet another one, where the huge northern varieties of pines cover the mountain and slope right down to the water's edge).
There are several small towns around the lake but we are staying in the one named after the lake. It has a big resort style hotel on it, with the same name, and a marina that is quite interesting. It claims to have the longest floating boardwalk (a dock-type boardwalk) in the world (3300ft.) We went out on it and we agree it's pretty long.
Needless to say the town has all the cute little restaurants and sights that you would want at the "beach" lake community. We guess their thing is the "painted moose" since we saw several and here is Rich with one of them.
We stopped at a pub and enjoyed some beverages, I had a "laughing dog" ale which had a golden retriever logo, (I'm such a sap for those goldens)!
The best thing we've heard about the place, but didn't see in person, only in brochures is that it has the world's only "floating green" at the golf course here by the lake. It looks rather interesting and you boat out to the green to finish your putts. We can think of several of you, who would probably love this.
So given that we were only looking for a place to stop over on our way to Glacier National Park, (tomorrow's destination), we stumbled on a very nice town that we would have had no problem staying in for several days. Finally, as always, here's Rich's newest friend. He's trying to steal the salmon back from the bear, (what can I say?)! Love & Joy, Mare & Rich
So given that we were only looking for a place to stop over on our way to Glacier National Park, (tomorrow's destination), we stumbled on a very nice town that we would have had no problem staying in for several days. Finally, as always, here's Rich's newest friend. He's trying to steal the salmon back from the bear, (what can I say?)! Love & Joy, Mare & Rich
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