Sunny skies, smooth roads, mountain vistas, curves around
and over rivers, virtually no traffic, crisp juicy apples and someone you love
along for the ride. What more can one ask for!
This morning was one of our favourite roads over Idaho’s Whitebird
Pass and along the Salmon River. The signs in Riggins told us the salmon are
running which probably explains why every possible camp spot along the road was
occupied and most of the motels had no vacancy signs. Having said that we saw
very few people actually fishing. The river is running very fast and full so
wonder how much luck anyone would have anyway. Lots of snags to be caught we
are sure.
Our old bodies seem to be stiffening up faster than in the
good old days so we seemed to be making more stops than normal and are grateful
for the chance to stretch and get the old joints moving again. We had an older
man walk by and comment on how he can no longer do this. Makes us both happy
we still can and even more determined to keep at it until we really no longer
can.
The afternoon took us into drier sagebrush dominated areas
and through lots of lush farmland where there is irrigation. They are trying
to get a handle on some of the invasive weeds as we are in BC.
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| Eastern Oregon's High Desert |
It really was a very nice day until the last hour or so when
the winds started to gust (70 km/h?) and the temperature dropped to 12C. We are
in the mountain high desert so half expected this.
We are at one of the motels we have stayed at on two different occasions. It is well situated. We seem to be doing a sort of memory tour, though the road we traveled here from Idaho Norma has never travelled and Doug last took way back in 1988! Doug remembers staying in the Bates motel (really!) in Vale, Oregon (we went through there today) with two buddies from work who decided to give him a motorcycle escort to Berkeley. Doug stayed there to teach summer school and they rode back to BC. Both have since passed away. Today’s ride was for you Joe and Brian!
We are at one of the motels we have stayed at on two different occasions. It is well situated. We seem to be doing a sort of memory tour, though the road we traveled here from Idaho Norma has never travelled and Doug last took way back in 1988! Doug remembers staying in the Bates motel (really!) in Vale, Oregon (we went through there today) with two buddies from work who decided to give him a motorcycle escort to Berkeley. Doug stayed there to teach summer school and they rode back to BC. Both have since passed away. Today’s ride was for you Joe and Brian!
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| Remembering Joe and Brian |
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