10 miles from Canada Rricky.

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That’s right, today we were just 10 miles from the Canadian border. We both have our passports, but neither of us felt like dealing with border nonsense.
Today was a good one. We left the dam this morning and almost immediately found ourselves surrounded by trees and enormous lakes. Up until about an hour and a half ago we had only seen a few cars in our lane. By cars, I mean 2. You couldn’t ask for better riding. It was a cold, but manageable. It rained a few times, but who cares we’re on a motorcycle trip.
Early in the day we refueled in a small town called Inchelium. The people were so friendly. It’s common that people wave at us, heck even cops will just wave at us, but in this town the number of random smiles and waves was off the chart. By the time we were back on the road I had a smile on my face from their good will. Eastern Washington was full of great people. Maybe it has to do with how beautiful their area is. I couldn’t count how many times the word beautiful came to my mind today. It was the perfect end to our time in Washington.
We’re now in Idaho and looking forward to tomorrow. One thing we’ve noticed since we’ve been in state.. Idaho has no friggin clue how to set up stoplights in it’s cities. Now, we’ve only driven through two of their ‘cities’ one was about 10,000 people and the other 40,000, but both had traffic like cities 10x their size. It was gross. We asked each other questions like: Why is there a stop light on the highway? Why are they all timed so that you can’t make more than one? Oregon seemed to have actually thought out so many aspects of their transportation system, the opposite seems to be true for Idaho.
We had a good long day today. We’re looking forward to some Arby’s and brewskis to put a cherry on top of this mofo.

6 thoughts on “10 miles from Canada Rricky.”

    1. He told me about his brother being born there. It was so pretty! How were the winters?

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  3. Hmmm, we were so young when we lived in Eastern WA, early 20’s, and my first experience away from the South. Looking back, the weather was gray Dec-Jan with many days light rain or snow. Snow melted off pretty quickly, not like Anchorage where it can stick around for months. I liked the areas north of Spokane where it was greener and small towns rather than the city. Summer could get Hot but always seemed to cool down at night. When you mentioned bad traffic in a small town I immediately thought of Couer D Alene! It was even bad in the 70’s and it seems the people there want it to stay the same. I liked the progressive attitude of WA and enjoyed the rural, really rural, areas still available. To highlight the rural areas of WA, when we lived in Wenatchee, Bob was an Air Force recruiter. His territory covered over 10,000 sq miles. He would go visit high schools and parents would invite him to their home. They would sometimes give him fruit and veggies from their orchards and gardens to bring home. Nice people. Glad you guys are seeing so much that the west has to offer, truly beautiful. Have fun.

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    1. That is awesome! Hilarious you immediately thought of that particular towns traffic. Thank you for sharing that cool story about your time here!

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