Pacific time.......

8:30 am - Friday - July 31st - Coeur d'Alene, ID - 72° F, 48% humidity, wind - CALM......clear, blue skies today with a forecast high of 100° F.....our first triple digit day this summer.  On this day in 2018 we were dining at Beale's Lobster Pier in Southwest Harbor, ME..........↴

 Lobster Rolls and Allagash White.....

......the best Belgian White ever made!

I was up shortly after 6 am Mountain DST (really 5 am Pacific DST) in anticipation of an 8 am departure....very early for us, but needful since the high temperature for the day at our destination, Coeur d'Alene, was going to be 97° F...we wanted to arrive while it was still in the high 80's.  True to plan we exited the KOA around 7:55 am, and were soon floating westbound on I-90.  At about the 6 mile mark we got off the Interstate to pay the rent at the local Love's truck stop where we took on 110 gallons of diesel at $1.87/gallon....this will be the least expensive diesel we see until we pass through Washington State, and into Oregon.

We were warned by our friends Richard and Rhonda that there were numerous construction zones standing between us and our destination, and two of them were quite lengthy.....

The cone zone

.....we made good time in the light traffic, and soon we were at the halfway mark....Haugan, MT checking out the 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar......

....we stopped here back in November of 2008 on our first long Newell trip to my sister's home in Spokane, WA for Thanksgiving.  I actually bought a silver dollar back then.

Just past Haugan, MT is Lookout Pass, and then the Idaho border......

....where we re-entered the Pacific Time Zone for the first time since March 3rd of this year.  After Lookout Pass we had just one more pass to slip over.....4th of July Pass standing at just 3,069' above sea level......

 4th of July Pass - all that stands between us and Coeur d'Alene, ID

......the first view of Lake Coeur d'Alene (just past Wallace, ID)....not far now......

.....the last time we were in Coeur d'Alene in the Newell was September of 2013.  Then we stayed for a month on the banks of the Spokane River at River Walk RV Park....we got winter rates then ($440 for a month), but now their winter rates do not begin until October, and their weekly rates right now are $325, so we opted to stay at the Coeur d'Alene Elks Lodge #1724 for $20/night.  They have a 30 site RV park in the back of their property providing 50 amp electric, and water.

We arrived around 11:30 am Pacific DST, and were set up in site #11 shortly thereafter after paying for one week.....

.....this is a tight 'cheek by jowl' park, but very quiet.....we are about 4 miles off the Interstate here.  Once we had backed our 62' into site #11 I quickly connected the shore power, while TLE turned on both A/C's to cool the hot interior.  The high temp hit around 5 pm, and then it finally began to cool, but oh so slowly.

We spent the rest of the day staying cool inside the Newell....I took a long nap to make up for my early start to the day, read some, and napped again.  We had a subtle sunset around 8:25 pm....about an hour earlier than the past couple of months whilst we resided in the Mountain Time Zone.....

.....thanks for stopping by!

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