#43 Coeur d'Alene Idaho

We left the Nugent’s and I was a little bit afraid of taking the mountain roads like the GPS said. It would be much shorter they wanted me to go potentially through up couple of passes and through some curvy mountain roads. I got scared and decided I needed to go straight down and hit why 90. I thought I had punched in the time required and it was about 3 or 3 and a half hours. I figured how bad could this detour be, maybe add 1 hour. I don't know how it always happens, but I think it took us like 7 hours to get there. I was quite wiped out but we got to the city called Coeur d’Alene.

I don't really know anything about it. I just know that everybody said I was pretty. I finally decided it was a very large Lake surrounded by mountains. It seemed to be kind of a bowl. The area makes you feel like you just have it all. The mountains, you got some grasslands and a big old Lake. We didn’t do that much there but we went and enjoyed a museum. It was a part of Farragut State Park where we were staying. It honored the guy named David Farragut who said “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” He was a hero in the Civil War and a pretty cool guy. The state Park was a training facility during WW2 and they took this very huge area and created a basic training facility. In 1940s money it cost around 150 million dollars to create. Two years after the war they decided to haul it off as Salvage. It was converted into a state park. I have an image of the military base on the left and the state park on the right. You can see that they are the same road layout but two very different functions. It was really nice to learn all the stuff. On the way to a church service, I found a gathering a wild turkey. I pulled over and walked up as close as I could. I just loved getting some pictures and videos of them. We did a bike ride around the lake and that would have been good but there were a couple of big hills and India just can’t do hills. We were on the tandem bike at the time. We done some flat terrain rides. One time a Mackinac Island we did a flat ride that was about 5 miles. She didn't have any real problems with that. After a little bit of arguing a couple of times we finally decided maybe we have to stay in level ground.

That kind of represents our stay in Idaho.

We were on the way to a church service and I pulled over to take some pictures of a family of Wild Turkeys. Very cool

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