Coeur d'Alene, ID

Wednesday, June 20, we drove from Rufus, Oregon to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and stayed at River Walk RV Park downtown on the river.  It is a small park with sites kind of close together.  They had us pull in to a pull through but we had to back out of it to leave the next morning.  Here is a picture of our site;

As you can see, it was a beautiful day when we arrived with the temp in the upper 70's.  I had sent an email to Dick & Ardell Easterday who live in CdA to let them know we were coming.  They invited us over to their house for dinner.  Their house was a little under five miles from the RV park.  We had a delicious meal and a great visit.  Their home is beautiful and the yard rivals any fancy English garden, there are plants and bushes and green grass everywhere!  We had dinner under the gazebo in the back garden area, what a treat!!  Dick & Ardell are wonderful hosts and we hated to leave, but we were tired and knew we would have long day ahead of us tomorrow.  

Thursday morning we backed out of our site and pulled over to the side road to connect the car.  The tow bar had been giving us a little grief and not locking in place.  This morning it got worse and would not lock at all.  The Honda looked like it was trying to pass us but it couldn't, thankfully the tow bar arms are not long enough for the car to get around the RV!  We went ahead and left CdA and got out of town and pulled over a few times in the chain up areas on the interstate to try and reset the tow bar.  Nope, it wasn't going to cooperate.  We decided to unhook the car and drive separately to Columbia Falls, Montana.  Mike drove the Honda and I drove the motor home.  We arrived in Columbia Falls at Nola's house about 4:30 that afternoon.