We have been touring the surrounding areas, there are many lakes and rivers in the area, since we had toured the Abeni Dam which has the Pend Oreilli River, we decided to take the trip up the Priest River yesterday to Sandpoint, ID. (see pictures) it was small pop. 690 many hippy stores still from the 60's 70's.  We had a great lunch at the Spud Rotisserie and Grill, right downtown.  You take IDAHO2 to Sandpoint. and make a left at the one way street to go downtown as soon as you pass the light turn right into the restaurant, we ate and then walked the town. Great little shops to explore.

Today, Memorial Day, we took the drive to Priest Lake about 35 miles from here (Newport) and in Idaho. It was a great day to drive as the weather was around the upper 70's and the trees made it cool along the priest river.  There are 4 Marina's at the lake we only went to two the first one must be extremely popular as it was crowded with boaters and water sport people. As you can see Mike stopped in & got that coffee he needed before going on. It allowed me to take pictures.

 I hope you can see there is still snow on the mountains over Priest Lake

We then drove over to the other Marina, what a difference, this one is defiantly on the upper class scale, compared to the other marina. Make sure you se all of the pictures from Idaho Click here

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Tomorrow is a rest day, right, let's see I need to do laundry clean the RV
 and oh yes let Mike sleep till noon.  Later Carol

We arrived at Newport on the 20th staying until the 3rd of June.  It is a small park, spread out along the Opelli River.  (Click on picture to see more of the park). We are in the back so we could get internet. Lots of trees.  Newport is on the border of Idaho and Washington, when you  go out of the park turning left one street you are in Idaho. Our first day took us to the Abeni Falls Dam in Idaho, there are no falls now as the dam was created where it use to be, the river eventually flows into the Columbia River. 

Looking at the Dam you can see the trees across the river that is Washington. We then went back to Washington heading for the Kallispell Tribal Reservation along WA-20, where the buffalo roam.  YEP there are buffalo roaming on the grounds

they are a scared animal to the people here. We then went to the caves or Manresa Grotto, a short climb to the top and you are in the Holy caves.

we found the rock formation great interesting, while looking at the caves I saw what I thought to be a man in the formation so I took the picture when I got back to the rig I was pleasantly surprised to see this, can you see the face and the fish?  Take a look at all of  the pictures to the cave. Click here

This being Memorial weekend we will enjoy the celebration here in this city, it is an old town built in 1898 and the buildings reflect that.  There is a grocery store and some unique gift boutiques and a Radio shack.  It is a very busy little town.  Don't know where all of the traffic comes from.  There are two paper mills along WA-20 and yes folks there is a train that runs twice a day which we can see & hear from our rig.  I guess Mike just can't get away from the RR. 

 By the way Michael has meet a terrific gal and now in New Jersey living there, we will miss him as he is the reason we always headed for Utah in the summer first.

Our granddaughter will be living with her mother in Dallas, TX so guess where we might be for the winter.

Hope you enjoy our visit to these places along with us until tomorrow have a great holiday.

Love Carol