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Two Fall Road Trips 2023

The first trip was doing the Selkirk Loop. We headed first to eastern Washington, then northern Idaho, then British Columbia. We highly recommend.

Crossing the Columbia
                               

                                                                   Priest Lake, Idaho
                                                    

                                             The FREE ferry across Kootenay Lake

We headed to Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. It was beautiful, nice hikes, good place to ride our bikes and the added bonus was that the Kokanee salmon were swimming up river to spawn. 

View of the lake


The visitor's center in the park was wonderful and we learned a lot about the fresh water salmon.



From there we headed to Nelson, BC. and then
Beaver Creek Provincial Park




The next morning we headed west with a stop
 in Metaline Falls where we had a great            
breakfast at "The Farmhouse".


                 We stopped in Colville for fuel and to stock up on food and then headed to                                                to Steamboat Rock Campground in Eastern Washington.

                                                               Along the way:                                                                 

             
Cusick

                                   

                                                                       Colville

                                                                 Deer Meadows
                                                                              
                                                            Grand Coulee Dam

                                   
                                       Heading towards home -west along the Columbia



The second road trip was in our new car "Otto" - visiting friends and family. First stop was visiting my two nieces in Oregon and my sister who is recovering from surgery. From there we headed to Santa Cruz to visit Jim's college friend Joel and his wife Judy. We had a fun three days there catching up :  

Joel and Jim lived in a house in Boulder Creek 
and also built a house there - the start of Jim's building career!
Out for a walk along Lighthouse Point and lunch on the Coast in Santa Cruz
with Joel and Judy.

Next stop was a three day visit with our cruising friends Jim and Jean (Kanga) in Livermore, CA. We went for walks, a drive around wine country, ate some wonderful food at some great restaurants, and went for a sail on a nearby Lake Del Valle (maiden voyage for their new to them day sailer). And we got to meet Molly:






The last stop was with Jim's brother in San Francisco.  It's always fun to visit him and we had an added bonus because my good friend from middle school and high school drove up to SF from Palo Alto to spend a day with us.

Tunnel Top Park in SF (new)


Golden Gate Park

Bethie (my good friend from middle/high school)
on Dave's deck.

John and Beth drove up from Palo Alto to spend the
day with us.

We headed home on October 21, spent the night in Medford and arrived home on Bainbridge about 5PM on October 22, 2023

It had been a long time since we were able to take a road trip and it was great to get out in the world again. Jim continues to slowly improve. His next scans will be in a month or two which will tell us how he is progressing.

                                                    

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