Retirement Travels

  We met up with my cousin Kay and her husband John in Clarkston, WA. We stayed at Premier Resorts at Granite Lake in a beautiful site right on the water. This park is on Granite Lake however the Snake River feeds into the lake. Across the river is Lewiston, Idaho. We all enjoy bike riding so we rode out e-bikes out to Hells Gate State Park which is in Idaho, we put on over 20 miles on the bikes. This ride included a winery stop and a brewery stop both were within 2 blocks from park sites. Echo also enjoyed the bike/walking path. The squirrels would tease him so he had to check out EVERY tree.     We visited Nez Perce National Historic Park. On the brochure it says that it is a park about a people, for all people. The visitor center had some interesting displays of the Nez Perce tribes and their people. After 3 wonderful days we traveled to Chelan, Washington. The park is located on Lake Chelan. Kay took some pictures of us driving, something we don't get to see.  We...

We left Mountain Home and stayed at one of our favorite Harvest Hosts, Echo Ridge in Echo Oregon. Check out this beautiful sunset.... While we were in Wisconsin we had started looking for a place to get Echo’s 3 month blood check  for his Valley Fever. We were not able to get an appointment in Boise, ID, Vancouver WA, or Portland, OR but were able to g et one in Kennewick, WA which was 45 minutes one way out of our way. So we got that done and got in late to our site in Portland, OR. (Update on Echo's Valley Fever, they felt his levels were low enough to take him off medication however, we need to get him tested again in 3 mos.) We were busy while in Vancouver visiting Eric and family. Eric did an amazing job painting our bathrooms. I had them all prepped ready for him to transform them, what a difference! Before After We ate at Kiyoto, the food was amazing. Apparently, the Saki was really good. 😂 While we were in Mountain Home we received word that our Magna Shade was ready for s...