At our campsite, Sandy served up a delicious breakfast of dried fruit and nuts, with beverages of water and imaginary coffee.
The day's ride was simple: we continued up U.S. 12 along the Lochsa River, rising from 2300' to 3800' over 40 miles, with nothing at all along the way except beautiful scenery. We were worried we might run out of water, but we didn't. With our fuel tanks nearing empty, we were grateful that the climbing was minimal.
We reached Lochsa Lodge in time for lunch. The comfortable and large lodge dates from the 20's. We have half a cabin with a king sized bed and a private bath- beats the hell out of camping with cold water and no showers!
This is day 13 of our ride, and our run of good luck with the weather has run out. From the lodge library we are watching storm clouds move through, and the forecast is for plenty of rain over the next several days.
We have been enjoying your tales. Erin would be thrilled if you ever get a chance to drop a postcard in the mail. She keeps asking if you are going to send her a letter.
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ReplyDeleteWe are all caught up on your blog. Great tale and great journey. Congratulations on your progress. Presumably you are going to be headed largely down hill in coming days, which we are sure will be welcome.
We enjoyed you phone call the other day--thanks.
All good here. Kyle finishes school at Tulane / in Italy, on July 5th. He swings through here on the 7th--and resumes a job search. We wish him will in that.
Spencer is in eastern Washington where he is manning a 105mm howitzer mounted on/in a Stryker. Much noise, lots of banging about, and old vehicles with things falling off. Less than perfect experience. He is back in Tacoma next week.
We have been out on the boat--probably will go out this weekend to enjoy the full moon. We are taking a water taxi to the baseball stadium Friday evening to see a Nats game--go Nats!
We look forward to the next posting.
Shaun & Sarah