Eastern WA & Western ID

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June 16-26, 2019

Overview

Loop route thru Eastern Washington to Western Idaho and back

We took take a Road Trip to Eastern Washington & Western Idaho, planned around visiting Stehekin, Mark’s RSE brother Fred-U in Stagle, ID, and Gail’s old friend Gaye-T (with Sandra-S) in Kennewick, WA. We chose not to take Lizzy, as we were planning to move on frequently, we’d have to leave her for our 2 nights in Stehekin, and we were invited house guests for another 4 of our 10 nights:

Chelan, WA, after a nice drive…to catch morning boat
Stehekin, WA at the north end of 50 mile long Lake Chelan
Grand Coulee, WA to catch tour of Grand Coulee Dam
Stagle, ID to visit Fred & Ruth
Lewiston, ID, to visit sites of Nez Perce NHP
Kennewick, WA to hang out with Gaye & Sandra @ Gaye’s

Highlights

We took the Lady of the Lake up Lake Chelan to Stehikin, and spend a couple of days exploring/hiking. That was something Gail had wanted to do since the 80’s. Power Guy Mark got to re-tour Coulee Dam and the Hanford B-Reactor. We toured Nez Perce NHP from Lewiston, ID and both got to re-connect with “old Friends”: Mark with Fred and Gail’s “mini-reunion” with Gaye & Sandra. They were both very nice visits…catching up and making a new friend (Fred’s wife Ruth). Fred & Gaye also took us touring.

From Stagle: boat trip on Lake Pend Oreille, visit to Schweitzer Ski Resort, walk & lunch around Sand Point
From Kennewick: day trip to Columbia Wildlife Refuge, Summer Falls, and Dry Falls State Park.

We realized later, that we had boated on our first 2 of the 5 Deepest US Lakes (which inspired us to get to all 5):