It’s been a
while since I posted anything on the blog.
We spent a couple of weeks just wandering around between square dance
sessions in Montana. The last post I
made was from Chewelah, WA which is just about 70 miles south of the Canadian
border. The smoke from fires in Canada
was pretty heavy our first night there.
From
Chewelah we came back through Idaho and into Montana crossing the Bitterroot
Mountain Range. This area has a lot of
large lakes and rivers and some really massive mountains. This will be our second time over this range
so it didn’t seem quite so bad this time.
I couldn’t get a picture of the highest mountain because we were
navigating it. These are just some of
the surrounding ones.
We spent a
week back in Jellystone Park in Missoula, MT so we could square dance in Lolo
once again for a special weekend event called the Lolo Stomp – had a great
time!
Back across
the Bitterroot Mountain Range headed for a couple of nights at the Northern
Quest casino just outside of Spokane. The rock formations along the road in Washington look like they were carved out of milk chocolate. The picture doesn't do them justice.
We left
there this morning, our stop for tonight is the Boardman Marina Park in
Boardman, OR. This is one of those parks
where a back in site is probably better than a pull through because the pull
throughs are just curved areas off the side of the main road with lots of trees
around them. Greg managed to get us in,
we are still uncertain how the morning will go when we try to get out.
Part of the
Columbia River Heritage Trail runs along the park. We walked for a while this afternoon but the
nice view across the river was covered by a haze from smoke. The air here doesn’t smell of smoke and we
aren’t really close to any working fires, but the smoke drifts for miles.
Some of the
boats at the Marina.
I thought
this dragonfly (or damselfly, I can’t tell the difference) was going to be my “wildlife”
picture of the day.
But then we
came across this seagull who seemed to be lost.
In the
morning we will be headed for Tillamook, OR.
Hopefully the views on the coast won’t be obscured by smoke haze.
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