Our Trip thru Washington Continues

 The day after the reunion we were still in the state of Washington-  oh my.  However, we were enjoying our drive through Washington and as yet were in no rush to get home.  Saturday morning we drove through a rural area of the state with many signs directing us to produce stands to purchase cherries, peaches and blueberries it was tempting, but our little cooler was already full.  Our lunch stop was in Leavenworth, we had to make that stop.

 

We had visited this town while traveling in our home on wheels, maybe 10 years ago.  The town is about all things German.  It was packed with throngs of people when we arrived.  Not a good place to be during a pandemic.  We did find a restaurant which did not have a long line running down the street, and had a delightful lunch of beer and brats.

I would have loved wandering through the shops offering German goods of cuckoo clocks and wood carvings, but it was necessary to be on our way.  We drove from Leavenworth again by fields of crops and cattle- one kind farmer labeled his fields so we did not have to wonder what was growing in them.  So in his fields we learned were growing: alfalfa, sweet corn, wheat, potatoes and timothy hay.  They were just small signs which were readable from the highway.

 We drove through the town of Wenatchee, where there is a confluence of the river of the same name And the Columbia River.

It was late afternoon when we started thinking that we should find a motel for the night.  We started checking on line and making calls.  No luck, we should have started thinking about that earlier.  We drove into Coeur d' Alene and randomly stopped at a Super 8.  They had a room!  However, it was for $200.00, and the kicker was that there were no elevators in the building.  It was a place to stop and the odds of finding any room were slim to none.  We took the room and schlepped our luggage up several flights.  Well, the desk clerk offered to help us, but she did not look any physically better than us, we turned her down.  Coeur d' Alene is a popular tourist town, we were just unlucky to have ended up there when we were ready to stop for the night.

Coeur d'Alene Lake