Yaak River Lodge turned out to be a nice place to stay for the night. From there we would spend the next 4 hours climbing 30 miles to the top of Dodge Summit several thousand feet higher than Yaak. We would coast down to Koocanusa lake and then find our way back to our starting … Continue reading Day 11: Yaak to Eureka, MT →

Another relatively easy day from Bonners Ferry to Yaak. It was all pavement and that made it additionally easy. Gloria wasn't too thrilled about the first 20 miles as it was down Highway 2. Of course, a busy highway in Northern Idaho/Montana means that not only can wild animals cross the road without concern but … Continue reading Day 10: Bonners Ferry, ID to Yaak, MT →

Maybe my legs are getting stronger or we're just making easier route plans towards the end of our trip. Although the map says 45 miles, in an attempt to avoid ever even seeing Highway 95 (which was impossible), we did a lot of meandering through the countryside today. I suspect our route was about 50 … Continue reading Day 9: Sagle to Bonners Ferry, ID →

Day 7 we enjoyed the Sabbath with the Powell. Tim taught us during our sacrament about how our values determine our priorities. Ultimately where you put your time and energy are your priorities. He also called me to repentance by helping me realize that even though I love having home Church there are others that … Continue reading Days 7 and 8: Sagle, ID →

We left even earlier than usual in hopes of avoiding traffic out of Coeur d'Alene this morning. We didn't have a long or difficult journey ahead of us but we were trying to avoid some of the Saturday traffic. Today was Gloria's worst nightmare as we had to ride along the side of a relatively busy … Continue reading Day 6: Coeur d’Alene to Sagle, ID →

I purposely failed to put a map at the start of this blog because the tracing of our route is untraceable. We wouldn't think of just riding the 30 miles straight to Coeur d'Alene. With the time change we were actually able to get up and out the door by 6:30. We left Silver Mountain … Continue reading Day 5: Kellogg to Coeur d’Alene, ID →

Morning. Some of the pictures in this blog post are flipped right to left. I have no idea why but maybe someone who's dyslexic will appreciate them. We were off early again today leaving Thompson Falls, MT at 7:30. We were excited to get the first 20 miles, uphill, out of the way before the … Continue reading Day 4: Thompson Falls, MT to Kellogg, ID →

Trying to avoid the heat we jumped up early this morning. It wasn't hard since most of the night we were awake listening to the bed squeak anytime we made the slightest move. We race down Highway 56 in the cool morning air and caught Highway 200 a few miles to Noxon Montana. Then we … Continue reading Day 3: Callows Island to Thompson Falls, MT →

The evening of day one we watched the DVD The River Wild. It's a Meryl Streep film in which she's guiding a raft and some murderers down the Kootenai River. It was filmed at Kootenai Falls. So on today's to-do list was stop at Kootenai Falls. After Kootenai Falls it would be on to our … Continue reading Day 2: Jennings to Callows Island, MT →

On our Great Divide Adventure 2 years ago, we abused the Reynolds Family by staying with them two nights. They were wonderful hosts and so we came back. We didn't make them put us up this time but we enjoyed church with them yesterday and this morning we left the car at their house and … Continue reading Day 1: Eureka to Jennings, MT →