Category: Idaho

This morning was sunny, but even colder than yesterday morning’s forest camp, at 39F, and that was enough to kill the battery in Rett’s bike computer. I’d looked for some of the CR2032 coin-cell batteries at Albertsons or something a couple weeks ago but they didn’t have them, so what are the chances that the…

It was 50 degrees F when we woke at 5:30am, which isn’t too bad considering it was 53F at 8:45 last night when I got in the tent. The baking drylands of Eastern Washington seem like they must be half-a-world away. Despite the early rise, we both got a solid 8+ hours of sleep, with…

There is a pond next to the tent area at the Kamiah KOA, likely as a sort of entertainment feature (it has a fountain shooting up in the middle). But it also has frogs. A whole load of frogs, who BRAP BRAP all night long (I don’t know where this “ribbit” thing came from). When…

Today we ride across the Camas Prairie, a part of the West as beautiful as it was unexpected. I was familiar with the mountains of Idaho, and the dry irrigated river valleys of Idaho, but had no idea there was this expanse of cooler-climate farmland sitting 3000 feet above the valleys. Unlike Idaho’s huge Snake…

Yesterday while Rett was taking a shower and I had finished setting up the tent, I sat on our sleeping pad looking out through tent’s mesh at the trees around us and said to myself “this is a really nice place, maybe we should stay here longer!” Extending a stay on a whim is something…