Hot Springs near Boise, Idaho

Karen,Bill and I drove to Kirkham Hot Springs, about 1 1/2 hours from Eagle. Gorgeous drive, the Payette River running along the road, and so many pines along the mountains, it was about 90 today, and so beautiful. Perfect day. Hot springs felt great, the river was ice cold. Bill was the only one who braved that.

Newport, Oregon and Idaho City, Idaho

We were in Newport, Oregon visiting our friends Patt and Larry Hood. The weather was perfect. Blue sunny skies, perfect weather. We weren't there very long, but were glad we had a chance to visit.

We're in Boise, Idaho now visiting Karen, the girls and her new husband Kenny. Drove to Idaho City, Idaho, it's an old mining town from the l800's where the Chinese first settled. Still has remnants from the past. Such as the Pest Houe, which housed people that had contagious diseases. The old jail is still there, as well as the original City Hall and other various buildings.

This is actually someones home, he has so much stuff all over the house and yard, you can hardly see the house, there was actually a fire five years ago, but there is so much stuff all over it, you can't even tell anymore.

Huge Osprey Nest

Washington, along the coast

We've been outside of Portland, Oregon for a few days at Jantzen Beach. Drove up the Washington coast to Long Beach, Washington. Can't believe we're only 16 hours from home after how far away we've been. We've been through 25 states and have been gone 4 months!
We have been so blessed to have been able to take a trip like this. We've met so many wonderful people and seen such incredible sites. We are anxious to see our family and friends so we're thinking we should be home within 1-2 weeks.
We're going to see friends in McMinnville and then we'll decide where we'll go from there.




Long Beach, Washington, just like Pismo Beach you can drive on the beach

Came upon these elk, beautiful

Gray's River, Washington

in and around Blanchard, Idaho

We left Whitefish, Montana on Friday and drove to Idaho. Beautiful drive. Sad to leave Montana, we really loved it. We've been in Blanchard, Idaho visiting John and Cari . We had a wonderful time and are now in Portland, Oregon. We had such a good time with our friends, they showed us all over their beautiful town and all around the area! Met lots of their friends and really enjoyed that too.

This is John and Cari's view from the front of their house


John and Cari in front of their house

This is our view from the restaurant where we had lunch in Coeur D'Alene

The boat we went on to get to the restaurant for lunch

Coeur D'Alene Lake

John and Cari took us to soooooooo many lakes, I'm not sure which one this is, they were all beautiful

In the hills behind John and Cari's house

Quite the dusty trail!!

Wouldn't fit in the truck or we would've brought him home

Granite Falls were gorgeous

Priest Lake

John and Cari were taking care of some friends animals while they were gone

Chicken John and Bill