PRIEST LAKE, IDAHO

We are finally back online. Spent the last week at Beaver Campground where we had no internet or phone service. It isn't much better here at this new campsite but will try to get something published on the blog.

Priest lake is a big beautiful lake in the upper portion of the Idaho panhandle just below the Canadian border...

 

Luckily we are on the left hand side of the lake which is less traveled. It is quiet and peaceful on this side away from the parties, jet ski's, and such. So it has been a week of enjoying nature.

We were told there was a bear that was just outside of the park boundry. As long as he stayed outside the boundry I didn't worry about him. The area is full of bear signs from the torn up logs to the best sign of all...lol

 

Yesterday we moved to a new park twenty miles south of Beaver Creek park. It has full hookups which is really nice. Naturally, with the Honda generator we have electricity which makes roughing it so much better. But we can't turn on the mircowave and most of the other electric ran items. We have to watch the amps pulled. It is also gas driven which when there isn't a local gas station handy can be a costly thing. But I think the best thing is getting an internet signal. It is only one bar on the HotSpot but one is so much better than none.

Before we left the Beaver Creek Campgrounds we took a drive up the road which ran through the American Land Management area where there is free camping sites. It is a very remote area but beautiful. Most campsites were near Granite Creek. In looking around we decided the sites were just a bit too remote for us. I took a lot of photos on that trip and will share them over this week. One I will share today is of a shoe tree...

 

This was at the Stagger Inn Campsite on the Washington side near Huff, Idaho. It was an unexpected fun find. People wrote their names, cute saying, and places on shoes and nailed them to a big dead tree. Or they tied the laces together and toss them up into the tree limbs...

 

 

There is already a famous "Shoe Tree" so they named this tree the "Shoe Crew" and hence I guess is the reason for names being written on the shoes. There were leather shoes, tennis shoes, baby shoes, flip flops, and about every other type of shoe except for show shoes. Can't imagine why there were not a pair of show shoes being this is snow country, lol. I had to keep an eye on Phil because several times I caught him trying out shoes for size... I don't think he was testing to see if there was room for his Crocs...

 

 

To those of you that know Phil's brother James, just a note to let everyone know that he is okay and is in Texas riding out the hurricane. He and Dorothy will return to Lousiana when it is safe.

 

And with that note I will close this  and get chores done. Remember to let the music move you as you dance through life... KEEP ON DANCING...