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Wed July 21,2010

La La Hache, Bc to Loon Lake, Washington

So after a good nite's sleep, breakfast at the diner nextdoor and a full day's drive, we reached Nick's place about 8:00pm that night.

We rode through some of the most beautiful country of our trip, fields of hay with beautiful mountain backgrounds and wonderful clear rivers and streams hurrying by as we drove and the most perfect clear blue sky above as we continued south and a little East through British Columbia, Canada..the last leg of our journey until we reached the beloved USA!!!

Gene and I counted 7 border crossings and they didn't keep us at any. Actually, they all went pretty smoothly. I felt the USA crossings were a little more lax than the Canadian; however, we are American citizens so perhaps that is why.

Once over the last crossing into NE Washington State, the mountainous scenery and farmland continued, interspersed with beautiful rolling hills, mindful of the Palouse Country of Eastern Washington. I loved that country and felt as if I were home again as it reminded me so much of where I was raised along with my siblings in Ferndale Arkansas, about 20 miles west of Little Rock. My heart was full!

Upon getting to Nick and Debbie's we had some wonderful conversation with them for a couple of hours, had an ice cream cone and went to bed. The next day, Thursday was spent visiting, looking at pictures of the ones we just took and the albums that showed the years that Nick and Debbie raised their two sons in North Pole and Fairbanks Alaska..Deb made us a wonderful omelet w/cinnamon raisin bagels and two pots of coffee!

Nick and Gene unloaded the Uhaul RV and washed the bugs off of it before returning it to a dealer in Deer Park. Nick spent a lot of time washing it although I tried to tell him that they wouldn't give us a refund if it was cleaner:)

After doing our 'chores', Nick grilled 1/2 a salmon which we had with a baked potatoe and salad and good red wine..Now what could be better than that?

They were also trying to pack for their vacation which they had held up on after learning about my broken foot. They were going to NE WA, Penn Origer county to hunt huckleberries as we'd finished there last bunch when Deb had made us pancakes. They camp in their camping van next to a stream and hunt huckleberries but have to be sure to do it during the mid day so they don't have to share with the bears!!