Welcome to the oldest state park in the Pacific Northwest … Heyburn State Park on Chactolet Lake near the beginning of the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes. The start of the trail is actually about 6 miles further to the west in Plummer, Idaho, but trail runs right through Heyburn State Park.
This is our first campground that is located in a forest and is the kind of campground that we were both looking to find … we’re tucked into the surrounding forest just yards from the lake and a mile from the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes. We’ve found the natural beauty of the forest and we’ve found the summer heat … it is hot here and will be hotter in the week to come (high 90s). We’ve traveled from Tucson in search of cool … we’ve not found it in northern panhandle Idaho.
Alas, no cycling today … this was our day to do some housekeeping, including purchasing groceries and doing our laundry. We had to drive to the nearest town, Saint Maries, 13 miles down the road along the lake, to find a laundromat and grocery store. We joined all the single, working men of the area who were doing their week’s worth of laundry on Sunday … it reminded me of a New Yorker cartoon, a Father’s Day cartoon, in which a young boy, returning home from a stay with his father, excitedly tells his mother that his father showed him how you could wash all of your clothes together. I think that some of the men envied the fact that Paul had someone who could fold his laundry … folding did not seem to be part of their repertoire.
Our day of rest was anything but restful with the driving to a new campground, setting up camp, laundry and grocery shopping … and starting a new crossword puzzle.
Looking forward to bike riding tomorrow …
1 comment:
Oh, Clarissa... I do not doubt that Paul was envied, but do you really think it's because of the way you fold clothes? Silly girl...
I'm surprised and dismayed to hear of the heat. It is a shame to finally find woodland beauty without temperate breezes. Hopefully the heat will break.
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