What's in a name?

Coeur D'Alene

Just before the thunderstorm!

We stumbled on the 28th annual “Pig Out At The Park” in Spokane at the Riverfront Park. This park was used for the 1974 World’s Fair. Funny, we only remember the World’s Fair in Seattle. Perhaps Spokane should have erected a Space Needle? And how is it that Washington hosts the “World’s Fair” only 14 years apart. Where was it held the years in between?

Coeur D’Alene is a very beautiful lake with a nice resort feel to it; however, we stumbled across Pend Oreille Lake (Ponderay) about 50 miles north and it is just as beautiful. (We literally had to drive across it on a long bridge.) I have to wonder what makes one area become a destination resort and the other remains relatively obscure? Perhaps it's in the name? Pend Oreille Lake is the 2nd largest lake west of the Rockies and is almost 1200’ deep. During WWII it was used as a submarine training base.

We had our first rainstorm and Les is fretting about the water spots on the RV! I’m sure a truck wash is in our future. We’ve finally spent a couple of nights in a Wal-Mart parking lot (Sand Point, Idaho and Kalispell, Montana). It feels like old times! We did a lot of Wal-Mart camping with the Aerbus.

Tomorrow it’s up to Glacier and a motorcycle trip around the Going-To-The-Sun road.

Can you see Herman the 450 pound Sturgeon? This was taken at the hatchery near the Bonneville Dam.