Out West Adventure: Part 2--driving to West Glacier

Sat. June 22 and Sun. June 23: These were two days of some pretty hard driving. Saturday we packed BLTPB wraps for lunch and left the lovely Klipchuck campground heading east. Eventually we caught up with US2. Taking only a few brief stops, to see Chief Joseph Dam (the second largest hydroelectric dam in the US) and Grand Cooley Dam (the largest concrete structure in the US) on the Columbia River, and to eat our lunch in a small city park, we made it into Idaho in time to set-up our camper in a pretty nice RV Park about 20 miles north of Sandpoint. The park had decent WiFi so I caught up on the Blog up to Crater Lake. We also found out, much to our delight, that the “Going-To-The-Sun” Highway in Glacier had opened on Friday, several weeks earlier than expected even a month ago when we had last checked. We got two loads of laundry done while we ate taco wraps for dinner. It was nice to have electricity and showers after so many nights without. The sky cleared off at sunset and a full so-called Super moon rose above the trees in the quiet park.

Chief Joseph Dam

Grand Cooley Dam