Couer d’Alene ID

Hey! Who’s in charge of the blog today?  We must have been both mezmerized by the hum of the canoe straps, as neither of us really wrote much our second  long day behind the wheel heading Eastbound for Montana.   OK, we’re both making detailed notes from here on out!

Wallace Idaho: Center of the Universe?

Not much to talk about today really anyways. We set out in the morning again heading east with a goal of reaching Great Falls Montana tonight– a total distance of a little over 250 miles.  On the way out of town we had one last look at beautiful Couer D’Alene Lake before getting back on hwy I-90 eastbound.  

By mid morning we had reached the town of Wallace, an old mining town with many beautiful brick buildings. May have just been our hunger pangs subliminally coaxing us but the town looked interesting enough to warrant a little pit stop and a short look-around.  We ended up having some breakfast at a small kitschy diner and  playing a vintage table game of slap shot hockey.

Most of all we were surprised and amazed to see a sign proclaiming Wallace “the Center of the Universe”!    We  always thought that dubious distinction belonged to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, with its Lenin statue and Troll under the Aurora St Bridge.   

Continued wandering around town after breakfast digesting and looking for some decent coffee-   before resigning ourselves to the notion of getting used to drinking mucky swill out of  a styrofoam cup for the next couple of weeks!

No matter,  by this time tomorrow we’ll be well into Montana, and the day after that hopefully dropping the canoe in the Upper Missouri to start our little river adventure.