Idaho!

We're so close, I can see it! Idaho is pretty much right across the street. We're about half way through with a 90-mile day that will take us out of Washington State and deep into the Idaho panhandle.

We finally made it passed all the passes (doing one a day) and are out of the Cascades. Once over the first peak, we entered dude-ranch country, where there's a lot of scrub, dirt, and cattle. Every place we passed had "ranch" in the name and had big timber posts over the drive in.

Dude ranch country melted away into more farm land and eventually forests. We camped last night at a really nice spot along the Pend Oreille river with beautiful views of pine covered hills. We finished the day early getting a chance to jump in the river to cool down.

We're making really great time even considering the passes. In the last week we've averaged 67 miles per day, which is above our goal of 65 miles per day and really great considering this was the hardest segment of our trip.
Based on my last post, about climbing up Washington Pass, you probably all thought I was about to die. I'm feeling a lot better now, and pain levels are pretty low. My legs feel great, the palms of my hands don't hurt quite as much and the pain of my backside is sort of under control.

Again, I'm writing this from a public library and again the usb ports are disabled so I can't add photos!!! Arg! Oh well. In less than a week, we will be staying at house for the night and hopefully I can post photos then. I'm planning on posting a bit about our campsite culinary cuisine...