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. …
26 July 2012 Missoula MT to Lochsa Lodge ID 59 miles (TransAm 3,379) Welcome home to the great Pacific Northwest! To some, Idaho is known as the Gem State. I generally think of it as the Potato State. And pink. Idaho was always pink on the maps hanging on our elementary school walls. Washington was …