
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
We’d hoped to take WA-20 all the way from the Idaho boarder to the coast, getting about 150 miles into it today. But sometimes plans change.
It was an ominous start to the day as I awoke to rain beating down on the asphalt outside our window. Wise move to have covered the bike. I clicked on the weather channel. At 6AM it was 39 degrees, there was even a dusting of snow on the hills outside our window.
I tried to be enthusiastic about such Rounder weather…BUT IT’S THE 3RD WEEK OF JUNE!! Packing took a little longer…or where we just dragging our feet? We where feet up by 8:30, it was drizzling and 45. It didn’t get all that much better. We saw intermittent sun, followed by showers temps struggled to stay in the 50’s … once we’d descended out of the 4K-foot elevation.

We stopped in Idaho for a weather forcast from Kevin…we learned the rain was lingering at the Canadian boarder and south was better that north. I scrubbed the WA-20 idea.

We made our way to Southwest to Spokane. We looked like two dirty-beached whales by the time we rolled in to the hotel lobby. It’s a wonder they rented us a room! We had at least 4 layers up top and 3 layers of bottoms and a layer of muddy truck spray.

It was a very long 275 miles today… but now the sun is out, we’re crashed at a nice place with a heated pool and hot tub. We’re getting our second wind. I think we’ll review the 400+ Going to the Sun Road pics we have from yesterday….and any remnants of the blues will be gone.
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Gail and Lisa
Following your adventures (and mis-adventures....)
See you tomorrow.
Scot and Carol
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