ON WITH RETIREMENT

After a quick trip to Redfish to see a bit of what is to come for next year from Garth and Bev and waiting for our new windsheilds to get installed in the motorhome we are off on our first winter trip and I guess we will be called sunbirds. But before going to the sunshine state of Arizona we are going North to the panhandle of Idaho then west to the coast and then south down the western coast then on to Arizona. Our first stop was Fort Hall where I won $180 which I put in the gas money kitty. From there we headed to the Big Hole River, Brents favorite place to fish. On our way there we stopped in Spencer Idaho, the opal capital of the states and dug for opals. We found a few nice ones and will check later on into getting them cut out so I can make some jewerly.
Then on to the Big Hole where we did some fishing and had good luck there.



Me at Lake Como in Montana. After leaving the Big Hole we drove to Lake Como via St Josephs pass. We stopped at the place where a big Indian battle was fought and learned about it in this canyon, it was very sad the lifes that were lost for really no valid reason. Brents cousin Janet had told us about the Lake Como area and she was right it was very pretty there and had nice sandy beaches kinda like Bear Lake but with prettier surrounds.
Then we went on to Priest Lake in the Panhandle of Idaho. Along the way we went past Lake Pend Orielle and Cord a lane Lake. Austin would love these Lakes there were alot of sailboats of them and they were very nice and clean lakes. We learned about Preist Lake from one of our campers this last summer and they encouraged us to make the side trip to see it. It was well worth the side trip. Brent tried fishing but didn't have any luck here, but it was very pretty and we had a site right on the lake.

It was so pretty here I wanted to stay longer, but we were told that the passes we had to go over to get to the cascades were expecting snow in a storm that was coming so we headed on to get over the passes before the storm.