We stayed at Tom's mom's in Livingston for a week. One day we took her to Costco in Bozeman, 25 or so miles away. There is a mountain pass between the cities and many of the trees on it are dead from the beetle. We returned by a different road - through Bridger Canyon - that I had never ridden on. It was very pretty on this 20+ mile trip. There were big, beautiful homes and many pretty rock formations. We saw 5 deer and a herd of longhorn cattle. We could see dead trees on hillsides.
Another day Tom took her for cataract surgery and then the return appointment the next day. Another day we helped her pick out a new stove, compactor and microwave. We went out to eat 3 times, had friends in for lunch one day, went to church and worked around the house and in the yard.
We drove to Idaho on a beautiful day of sunshine and 78 degrees. Many of the mountainsides across Montana had dead trees covering 1/3rd - 1/2 of it. Others are still healthy.
We were within 6 miles of our campground in Post Falls when we had a blowout on the camper. Of course it was on the highway side, but there was a little wider spot right there for us to pull off onto. The next day Tom replaced the 2 tires we hadn't replaced in Nebraska. We were thankful it happened there and not on one of the 5 mountain passes we had just crossed!
We spent Friday evening and Saturday with Jacque's family, going to 2 tournament games for 13-14 year
olds - a friend of Dalton's. It was a state tournament and they won so will go to California for western tournament. Dalton's team lost the Sunday before or their team would have been in Boise this weekend for the tournament. Had they gone there we were going to go there to surprise him on our way home.
I am going to include some pictures of Couer D'Alene Lake because some of you who are following this have never seen it. We enjoyed walking the boardwalk since we hadn't been there for a couple of years.
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