Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Correction to yesterday's post.  We camped by Clearwater River, having left Payette River behind already.  We also changed time zones yesterday, back to Arizona time (we were an hour ahead).  Today we headed to Coeur d'Alene, one of the places on my bucket list because of my Dad's history here with the CCCs.  He actually served in Prichard, Idaho from Jan. to June 1940.  Prichard appears to be a little east of Coeurd'Alene, so we'll have to see if we can find out anything.  He spoke of this area as being very beautiful, and it is.  As we were packing up this morning, an eagle flew up the river, and a guy came by with a stringer of nice salmon,  10+ lbs each, Joe said.   There was a rock there with a pretty picture of a barn painted on it.

One of Collin's lifetime wishes is to ride on a train as a hobo.  We were parked next to a non-working railroad track, so Marilyn took a pix of him in a car, in case that's the closest he gets to that dream.  Although his son, Collins Jr., works on railroads, so it's not out of the question.

On the road today, we passed a lot of Lewis and Clark exploration signs, so they covered this area, as well as my hometown area in Indiana.  They were busy guys. The towns below (on each side of the river) are Lewiston and Clarkston -- imagine that. 

On the way up to this overlook, Joe spotted a wolf on the side of the hill/mountain.  That was exciting!  No pix, of course, but I too saw it.  As we topped the mountain, we drove for miles amidst huge fields of grain growing brightly green.  With the wind making waves in it, it was very pretty.  And we passed another elk farm.

We are staying at this campground in Coeur d'Alene for 3 nights.  We all have some maintenance to do on our rigs, we need groceries, and we want to stay out of the holiday traffic today.  There are lilacs here again, so I snitched some white ones last night.  We are going to see if the Visitor's Center is open so we can see what all Coeur d'Alene offers.  I believe the CCC museum is on up the road at Priest River, so we will probably drive up there in the car.  It would be really neat if I found a pix of my dad with his unit back in June of 1940.