Two Weeks on the Road

Langley, BC, Canada

It has only been two weeks since we left my mother's with a trailer full of stuff destined for the apartments of our grown children. We have since delivered said stuff and shed the trailer, we travel now in a Honda Pilot and all our stuff has to fit in there with us. We are really doing it. It has been a fantastic two weeks:

We walked trails in Ogden and Missoula and Langley. (In fact we got ourselves stuck on the trail in Ogden, unable to get back to our hotel. Our morning walk lasted over 2 hours.)

Missoula MT Clark Fork Trail

We spent hours just hanging out at a hotel pool.

We ate fried chicken at Maddox in Brigham city, tacos at the taco bus in Rexburg and burgers at the Burger Bar (Ogden, actually, Roy I think) and The Hickory (Rexburg).

We posed at Wendy Peffercorn's pool.

Lorin Farr pool, Ogden Utah

We hiked R mountain in Rexburg and watched planes fighting a wildfire below us.

We watched a truly fantastic firework show in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

We rode a carousel.

We saw the Ogden temple,  the Brigham City temple, the Rexburg temple and the Vancouver, BC temple.

Vancouver, BC Temple

We swam in the Snake River.

We visited a ghost town in Bannack, Montana.

Bannack, MT Hotel Meade and Assayer's office

We hammered on ringing rocks outside of Butte, Montana.

We were chased down a mountain by a thunderstorm.

We were awakened in the wee hours of the morning by an earthquake.

We visited old friends in Couer d'Alene, ID.

We crashed my sister's family reunion in Washington and had a water balloon fight with cousins some of my kids have never met.

We swam in Lake Chelan.

Lake Chelan, Washington

We slept in a camper for the first time ever.

We saw the brilliantly green Lake Diablo in the North Cascades.

We walked across the bridge above Gorge Creek Falls, where you can actually see through the steel grating below your feet to the creek a million miles below.

We ate fish and chips purchased out of a double decker bus in Bellingham, Washington.

And we crossed our first international border.

US/Canadian border crossing near Lynden, WA