Day 21 only 24 miles!

Day 21. We took off from our campsite for a beautiful ride to Eureka Mt.  At lunch it began to storm and we decided to spend the night in Eureka, even though Matt broke a store front window by flipping a stone from his tire.  (I never saw this said broken window! slanderous accusations!) We were all witness to the spider web crack as we rode through town. (If I did, and I do not admit to it, how could I have seen it, I would have been past the window by the time a pebble skipped into a so called window) The afternoon was spent walking around eureka.  Kayleen took time for a relaxing massage and then dinner and bed.  Nice little town, with a surprisingly good cafe and natural food store. 

A Day at Bike Camp

Meet your fellow campers at Tea Time!

Your Bath

Your Laundry

Your Dryer

Your 5 StarDinner

Your Room and View

It smells worse than it looks ... from 30yrds away!

Lights Out

Your Nightly Light Show

Day 20 road 80 miles

Woke up early had our usual breakfast of instant oatmeal and off we went! The ride was amazing, nice and cool with the Rockies as our back drop! We stopped at Kootenai Falls/Swinging Bridge and hiked down to see the waterfall. Next stop, at 30 miles, was Libby Montana, had an early lunch at Henry's cafe, picked up groceries and headed out to finish our next 50 miles. We got a little lost, lots of roads in Montana are unmarked! Once we were on the right path we had 15 miles of rolling hills in the shade...ahhh! It was rudely interrupted by some climbing in the sun!! At 5 pm we moseyed into our campsite, ready to get off our bikes!! The campsite was right on the lake, and for most of the evening we watched an eagle and osprey fight with each other!

Day 19 road 65 miles

Up and at 'em early today... We feasted on some delicious zucchini bread from the farmers market, said our goodbyes and hit road! We traveled along the river/lake... Beautiful views, saw more osprey nests, and hit some dirt/rocky road for about 5 miles, we looked like bobble heads going down the road :)  First stop of the day was at Clark Fork, grabbed dinner and blew that stand of Popsicle sticks! At 43miles we stopped at a convince store and had peanut butter sandwiches, cheese bagels, and iced tea! We had lost an hour when we crossed into Montana... Oh yeah we are in Montana now :) so we backed in the heat to our campsite and arrived around 4, unpacked and jumped into the lake for our baths.

Day 18 day off in Sandpoint

We slept in till 7:30, Paula and Steve were gracious enough to let us make scrambled eggs and veggies for breakfast :), then into town, on what else but are bikes about 4 miles on the bum jungle trail, right next to the lake. We just wandered around and had lunch at Mcduff's brewery... Very tasty. We hit all the outdoor stores to pick up odds and ends, then we caught the tail end of the farmers market, picked up some treats. Paula and Steve drove us to dinner, first time in a car in a while! We went to a local watering hole.. Eichards, delicious garlic Parmesan fries and good beer! Paula and Steve were our first experience with warm showers and they were wonderful! Thanks to Paula, Steve, Ollie, Pickles, Burka! We liked Sandpoint!

Day 17 road 77 miles and made it out of WA, into IDaho

We left the campsite and headed to Newport WA! The ride was perfect nice rolling hills along the river, through the Kalispel Indian Reservation. At one point we had 2 dogs growling and chasing us for about a 1/2 mile, we were all a little shocked at there persistence! We made it to Newport by 10:00 with 32 miles down we decided to ride a mile to Priest River to take a break and have lunch. Priest River was very small, but we found a cafe that served breakfast all day, so we all had 2nd breakfast! With full bellies we were off to Sandpoint Idaho. We arrived in Sandpoint by 2:30, part of the way we road on a bike path that lined the river, great way to end your ride :) We decided to use Warm Showers, and stayed with a host Paula a few miles east of Sandpoint! She lives in a beautiful neighborhood, we camped in her big back yard under apple and plum trees, it was perfect!

Day 16 road 57 miles

We left the hostel around 7:30, with plans to do some moderate climbing in the beginning of the day, which didn't end up being to difficult :) right before we caught our big downhill we passed 2 families each with 4+ kids riding tandem bikes, the had left Virginia May 30 and were almost done, just a few days away from Anacortes WA! We were all amazed by how well behaved the kids were! After our chat with the families we hit a nice long downhill into Ione WA, we had lunch and ice cream...yum! The ice cream cones were one scoop, but they were the size of our heads!! With full stomachs we headed for our campsite, Panhandle! The ride was beautiful, along the Pend Orielle river (pronounced Ponderay) nice little rolling hills, we kicked butt and made it to the campsite by 2:30, the river was nice and cool so we jumped in with our bicycle clothes on and considered that to be our shower and laundry for the day! :) The campsite was right next to the river, and we heard from the host that there was a moose hanging around at times, but we didn't get to meet the guy!