Ben and Sue Day 2

DAY 2

We  left the KOA campgrounds in Leavenworth at 10:15AM ,.  Once again warm sunny weather accompanied us the entire day.  We drove West on highway 2 to 97 then 97 for a short time till it me up with Highway 2 again.  Nearly the entire drive today was through beautiful hay fields on either side of the highway.  Hour after hour of glistening yellow fields -- some already cut, some waiting to be cut.  We saw huge stacks of bales already cut and stacked -- thinking perhaps the truck would be along to pick them up.  But then we wern't  so sure about the pickup because further on we saw -- tarp buildings -- best way I can describe them -- gigantic tarps completely covering on the sides and tops of these very tall stacks of hay.

. . .Onceagain I noticed the folksy country names:  Sunnyslope Road, Cottage Ave, Dayspring Lane, Snowy river Lane.  At one point we saw  a road sign:  SR 97 Orondo Spur.  I wondered about  that because I always thought a spur was that pointed peice a cowby wore on his boot to kick his horse to get him moving.  So I looked it up in the dictionary  and discoverd that a spur also means a range or ridge projecting in a lateral direction from the main mass of a mountain or mountain range. Interesting. . .

. . . We passed a tiny town named Waterville -- as I remember there was a  general store and we did not see even a gas station  It was easy to visualize the old westerns when cowboys went riding off into the sunset becasuse for every one house there was perhaps several thousand acres of rolling hills.

. . . Our big adventure for today was the closure of U. S. Highway 2 just west of Newport.  The entire highway was closed because a tanker truck had ost its tank -- real mess.  So the highway patrol put our detour signs which we tried diligently to follow but we must have mad a wrong turn somewhere and we found ourselves on this gravel, washboard road that went on and on for miles.  about an hour and a half later after stopping and asking for directions  we found our way back onto Highway 2 and continued on our journey.

. . . We are beginning to recognize a bit of a schedule now and are enjoying travelling in our 5th wheel.  Today we stopped for lunch -- made sandwiches -- and we had the fridge and water and so on readily available to us.

. . . We finally made it to our destination for  this evening: Priest River Idaho.  We decided to  stay here for 2 nights since tomorrow is Sunday and we want to go to church.  We unhooked the trailer and drove into town looking for a church.  The only one we could find had no real name -- on a sign saying "Sunday Worship 10 AM.  To be continued . . .

Semed to me like we drove and drove a very long way  but were not getting any closer to our destination.  I mentioned this to Ben and he lovingly      pointed out to me that 1/2 inch on the map represents many miles of actual driving.

Love, Ben and Sue