Day 2

What a swell day! The weather was blue skies and breezy sweet smelling air. So scenic here in northern Idaho and Eastern Montana. This is beautiful country. I think Jack even started watching the scenery roll by.

Left Spokane at 7:30am after eating cold cereal in our room, Jack had a lite meal of one chicken patty. Only 16 miles or so to Couer d'Alene. The lake there is very fetching and the town is clean and spiffy. It is a big lake and I thought it exceedingly beautiful (but it paled in memory when we reached Flathead Lake which is far more grandly pleasing to eye and spirit).

Drove thru lots of little towns on I90 with miles of wild and wonderful mountains, hills, grasslands, forests, rivers, lakes, ponds,and streams in between. Jack and I stopped alot to look at rivers, lakes, trees, towns. I did the looking and Jack did the sniffing. Jack took care of his most important works in a snow field late morning. Spent the whole day above 2000 feet in elvation. Much of it well over 3000.

Upon reaching Columbia Falls, MT, the gateway to Glacier Park, I picked up a friend of many years that lives there and together we went to the entrance of Glacier. The rest of the park is still closed for the winter. Too bad, those mountains are very dramtic from a distance, wish we could have driven up to the higher elevations and enjoyed them more intimately. There were signs along the road warning to stay on the road and out of the woods as the bears are waking up and are particularly dangerous at this time of year.

Not much traffic around this time of year..... this is very nice.