Montana: Check. On to Idaho.

September 8, 2010
Naples, Idaho

Today was another easy travel day. I'm really liking these shorter days, away from the Interstates. Today's drive took us from Hungry Horse, Montana, to Naples, Idaho, essentially along US-2 the whole way. Straight as that seems, it took 171 driving miles to cover the 108 straight-line miles, but it was all relatively smooth roadway and it's scenic country.

We made our first stop less than a mile from the start of today's drive, at the Huckleberry Patch right down the road. Geri loaded up on stuff to make pies, plus some pre-made pie and ice cream for our travels.

From there, our route brought us through Kalispell, then west and north through the Kootenai National Forest. Crossing into the northern tip of Idaho, we made a quick stop in Bonners Ferry for fuel and were quickly at our next destination: Blue Lake RV Resort. Now, I'm usually skeptical of parks with the word "resort" in their name" and, while this is certainly a nice "rustic" park with great owners, it ain't no "resort".

They do have a small vineyard (woo-hoo!) but it doesn't look like any wine will be made here any time soon.

"Wild" is right...

Not thinking we're going to be tasting the local wines...

But, we have a nice pull-thru, their free Wi-Fi works, and we have a TV signal from one of the rooftop antennas, so life is good. At least, that is, until the freight train passed by 100' away. (I knew we crossed a set of tracks on the way into the park - duh!). Hopefully, there won't be too many trains passing by...

Oops; there goes one now!