Today was marvelous, as we finally crossed from Washington into Idaho! Not only that, but we finally completed our first century that didn't involved riding in circles!
We began our ride from our beloved playground at Spangle (pop.300) after a fantastic evening featuring many slabs of meat in the glorious form of Freedom and Rancher burgers. We rode through picturesque green rolling fields of the Palouse (the default background on your computer, get to it). At around 4:30pm PST, we moved from the Evergreen State to the Tater State (motto: Idaho is too great a state for litter), and moved further into the state after a jolly photo sean with both state signs since we somehow missed WA on the way in. After several more miles, we came to the edge of the world/a huge basin containing most of Idaho. Taking the advice of the Spangle postmaster, we turned off the highway to follow a five mile snakey, awesome, downhill, egregiously fast, downhill, cliff-edged downhill! The wicked cool descent totally made up for the uphill for the past two days. We celebrated by hitting the slots at the Nez Perce Riverbend Casino. That's not true, we actually bought a ton of groceries. And then went to the historic Nez Perce town of Spalding. There we found a dawn-to-dusk park to sleep in. I reckon since we slept between dusk and dawn, it didn't count. Yeah. Tomorrow we head to the foot of the Bitterroot Range--into the Rockies!
-posted by s[hazz]am!
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