Thursday morning John talked me into taking another long bike ride, this time on the Coeur d’Alene Trail. To get to a good starting point we drove south to Plummer on the west side of the lake, then crossed the southern end of the lake at St. Maries, turned back north and drove up to the Harrison trailhead. Not only did this take most all the hills on the trail, it gave us a nice long 2 hour, 70 mile drive around the lake with some beautiful views of blue lakes, fields of golden wheat and green mountains.
From Harrison we rode our bikes on a nice flat paved trail along the South Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River in an area called the Chain Lakes. We rode about 22.5 miles round trip with the river on one side and a chain of four lakes on the other. Parts of the small lakes were covered with beautiful red and white water lilies, the water was crystal clear and the surrounding mountains and hills were in sharp contrast to the flat waters. We saw some nesting osprey (or at least we think they were osprey), a great blue heron and muddy prints of a moose but did not see the moose itself. If we had continued eastward we could have ridden all the way to the bottom of the Hiawatha Trail but it would have been up hill all the way! And my bottom was telling me “No more bike rides!"
After the ride we continued on the road up the east side of the lake which followed the curves, turns, dips and climbs of the lakeshore so that a 20 mile ride took 45 minutes. But it was very pretty.
Today we changed sites in the same campground so that we could stay through the weekend, I did the laundry and then John treated me to an extreme grilled cheese sandwich! We meet our friends at a small restaurant called ‘Meltz Extreme Grilled Cheese’ that specializes in grilled sandwiches. I had a caprese grilled cheese, John had the Oinker (why?!), Jeff had the reuben and Tina had a grilled ham and cheese. Good Stuff!
It’s not often I can talk John into going to a movie theater but Star Trek Beyond was showing so we took in the matinee along with five other people.
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