Spokane

The adventure begins where I left off three years ago, in Spokane. Visiting brother Jack and his wife Debi,  and their 2 kittens, 3 goats and 8 horses. Today we went to the Bitterroot mountain range in Idaho and biked the "Trail of the Hiawatha" -- 15 miles of an old railroad line, gravel with 10 tunnels, 7 trestles and all downhill starting from4,147 ft elevation near Lookout Pass. The longest tunnel was 8,771 ft., dark, chilly and damp with water streaming down the walls and raining from the roof. The trestles were up to 800 ft long spans. Thrilling. As was the shuttle back up in a creaking ancient school bus.