18 November 2012 Looking Back to 14 thru 16 Sept 2012 Priest River to Sandpoint ID 30 miles (TNV 444 miles) Sandpoint to Priest Lake and Back to Seattle Well, we avoided the grizzlies and lightning bolts but not the ever-present danger of succumbing to an unfinished blog. So how did our Two Nation Vacation …
13 Sept 2012 Ione WA to Priest River ID 62 miles (TNV 414 miles) All I do is think about bears on this trip. Brown bears, black bears, grizzly bears. As we were approaching the town of Priest River via Highway 2, which, by the way, has a very “worthy” gas station stop (i.e., ice …
04 Sept 2012 Bonners Ferry ID to Creston B.C. 42 miles (TNV 106 miles) “What do we do?!? What do we do?!? What do we do?!?” I am yelling this in Gina’s left ear as I pedal to her outside, strategically placing her and her bicycle between me and the black dog that is racing …
03 Sept 2012 Sandpoint to Bonners Ferry ID 45 miles (TNV 64 miles) The first thing I see as I pedal out onto I-95 and glance in my rear view mirror is a truck. A very large truck. A truck of the semi- variety. As I feel the truck bearing down and the fog of …
01 Sept 2012 Seattle WA to Sandpoint ID (360 miles by car) If Gina’s phone had had any bars, TransAm Wendy would have received a call from me. Why? Because Gina and I had arrived at our hotel room in Sandpoint and I found myself seriously out of practice for what was taking place around …
31 July 2012 Cambridge ID to Halfway OR 61 miles (TransAm 3,692) Rocky made an appearance today after a rather long absence. Today I didn’t wonder, however, what he’d been up to, as it quickly became obvious: Rocky was leading a pair of young ones along the backyard fence, with another adult, who I can …
30 July 2012 New Meadows to Cambridge ID 53 miles (TransAm 3,631) There are typically two elements I can count on to be included in Gina’s daily updates: (1) the condition of the route and (2) how often and where she stopped for food. These elements are as constant as the rise of the sun …
29 July 2012 White Bird to New Meadows ID 60 miles (TransAm 3,578) Desperate times call for desperate measures. Being behind in the blog but not wanting to miss the Olympics means the time has come to take over the dining room table with one large computer and one small remote control. I can do …
28 July 2012 Syringa to White Bird ID 67 miles (TransAm 3,518) Well I’ll be damned. I am psychic and didn’t know it. And you’d think being psychic, I would have known that I was psychic. So by not knowing I was psychic does that mean I’m not psychic even though I am? (I think …
27 July 2012 Lochsa Lodge to Syringa ID 72 miles (TransAm 3,451) TGIF. Loverboy got it right when they sang “everybody’s working for the weekend.” This is what I was humming to myself last night as my plane lifted off from Newark, New Jersey, about 30 minutes ahead of a fast-moving front of severe thunderstorms. …