June 23-28 – Spokane

Can't believe I forgot to include a visit from Chris & Anne (VVV) last Wednesday. They were driving from Ontario to Kelowna for a convention, contacted me and we set up a lunch date. We asked Harlan & Barb as well and decided to have lunch here as we are close to the freeway and it is more comfortable to spend time, chat & laugh than at a restaurant. They took a long break from driving and we had a great time.

We took the bike one day to look for yard sales in Liberty Lake. Terry had seen an ad on his phone for multiple sales but we couldn't find them. Probably didn't help that there was road construction making a heck of a mess on the main through road. So we went to the casino instead and stopped for lunch on the way. Nope, not a great casino day!

On another bike ride, we stopped to see friends Dale & Patsy (I used to work with Dale). We invited them for dinner that evening and had a great time catching up.

We had a big group of fellow Elks members/RVers at our site one afternoon. The bartender at the Elks club quit so with nothing going on there people ended up bringing lawn chairs and had many conversations going at once – sort of like VVV!

A couple stayed here one night and had a lot of fresh oysters that they had to get rid of as their fridge wasn't working. So Terry and a neighbor each took some (½ a bucket for us!) and kept them cold with lots of ice. The next day we cooked them on the BBQ and had people over to help us eat them. Dale & Patsy were at a car club meeting at the Elk building so they joined us as well. We had Bill & Georgia and Harlan & Barb over for dinner. Great evening with good friends!

The weather has warmed up a lot. We have had to use the AC for a few days but could do without it at night.

I forgot to mention that when my green card expired, so did my driver's license which is in Arizona as I got it there to get my motorcycle endorsement. I was going to change back to a WA license but the last time I renewed it here they wouldn't use our mail box address (used it on Terry's though!!!) and used Terry's Mom's address instead. So we decided to wait until we get back to Mesa and I'll get my AZ license then. So no driving for the whole summer!!

We have been shopping for bits & pieces and continuing to visit the casino without spending much money. We did run into Janice Stewart who I worked with and spent a little while chatting.  I got another haircut – same stylist but she was talking more this time so not as good!

We are leaving here on Friday the 30^th to head for Polson MT so I hope to keep up the blog a bit once we settle at Eagle Nest RV park for a month.