As you may have guessed, today kicked ass for us. We started the day rounding lake Coeur d’Alene. It’s huge and what surprised me was how almost it’s entire shoreline was ringed with docks. They were everywhere. The road was excellent, nice and curvey, and without a soul in site. That’s the beautiful thing about riding during the week, especially on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Everyone is in hell I mean at work, so the roads are empty. Especially way out here.
Around lunch time we stopped to eat at this place called the Hoo Doo Mountain cafe. Once we got or gear off we noticed the place was closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. As we were taking a little break in the parking lot, we heard the rumble of a bike starting up. A few minutes later from around the corner of the cafe appears this big blue bike. He rides directly up to us and turns off the bike. We chat for awhile, it turns out him and his wife own the cafe. You’ve probably by now figured out why the cafe is closed. This guy has it figured out. His cafe is on a known motorcycle route, so it’s open for the busy days and closed on the amazing driving days. Needless to say we were both a bit jealous. He gave us the name and location of an amazing route, that we will save till we are joined by our third. You will meet him in a few weeks, his work name is Aaron, but I I’ll call him Trip from here on out.
As we continued our day, now on the hunt for food, we stumbled into this place called Fuzzy’s B&G. Sitting near the door.. Treasure maps!!  It is called Come Ride With Us and is full of motorcycle roads and businesses that cater to people in our situation. Look it up if your interested, there is too much stuff in it to get into here.
In the afternoon we rodeback passed WSU and into the hilly windy area. Still windy, but a lot more mild when there isn’t a storm. We dropped down to the snake river valley, then rode along Lewis and Clark trail. I kept seeing the signs for this historic trail, but kept wondering how active they were in the actual trail breaking aspect of their adventure. I don’t know, but I can’t help but think they were back in a tent somewhere sippin tea making their worker’s lives miserable. Every now and then stepping out of the tent with an aweful idea of which way they should go.  Eh, who knows.
Thanks to our newest treasure map we found this great motel in Kamiah, Idaho. When we walked in the room both of us said Wowww, this place is nice and the price is right!
While writing today’s story, one of the hotel owners just happened to walk by and asked us, “How’s the room?”  I said awesome, but when Swampkat answered ‘fantastic’ the guy got a confused look on his face and said, “Fantastic? Fantastic is extra, we under charged you!”  It was hilarious. We wouldn’t have even found this place without that map, we would have surely stayed at the first hotel with ground floor rooms. As an additional bonus,  there is a Sinclair gas station up the street and it has the Dino statue out front.
You guys take care. We’re on our way Sinclair’s!