Day Thirteen: June 22

Bellingham (staring point), to Rasar State Park (44.17 miles), to Newhalem (40.39 miles), ride through North Cascades a little over 40 miles and continued through the North Cascades for another 40 miles into the town of Winthrop, to Omak (between 40-50 miles), to Waconda, left Waconda headed to Colville (55 miles), to Loon Lake(roughly 38 miles), to Spokane (about 30 miles), left River Side Park and rode into Coeur d'alene Idaho (52 miles or so), rode a little further just outside of Coeur d'alene (15 miles maybe a little more), to wolf Lodge Campground (32 ish miles), today we left and rode to Kellogg (31.27 miles)... Todays highlight of our day was seeing the moose grazing in the waterside along the trail of Couer d'alene... Big brown body, beautiful as he was. Whistler too found joy from seeing the moose. This time we were feet closer to the moose, rather than separated from the highway as we were the other day. We continued on our way right into Kellogg Idaho. A lot happening here this weekend; the town is kind of busy with recumbent's. There is no camping anywhere in Kellogg that we could find, so we had to check into a hotel ( laundry, hot shower, pool time)...one by one we watched these people show up to the hotel with their recumbent bike. Everyone greeted everyone, next thing you know they set up right outside the entry way talking story, riding their recumbent around as to show off their piece of machinery.. there is some ride taking place tomorrow, gotta find out more details later... We did question whether or not we could stick around one more day for the downhill racing this weekend, but most likely we will get back on the trail and continue our journey as we make our way towards Montana! The trail should pretty much bring us right across the border, depending on our start time, we may take two more days to reach it! As for now we just might continue watching these people as we peek through our hotel window (who needs t.v., we've got live entertainment)...