Dams

Holy cow we had a lot of dew this morning. The tent rainfly, motorcycles, even the tent below my air mattress was soaked. We let it dry some while making coffee and oatmeal, but still put it away wet. It was cold, damp and overcast, but at least it wasn't raining.

We were hoping to go through Glacier National Park, but since it was overcast that would not be worth it.

The first via point was Eureka, MT. From there we rode south along the eastern shore of the Koocanusa lake. It was beautiful - 35 miles of a glacial green lake with steep mountains as a backdrop. At the southern terminus we stopped at the Libby Dam and took a tour. The lake's name came from a concatenation of Kootenay river, Canada and USA.

After the tour we proceeded to Libby for fuel then north on 587 (I think) to Yaak. This was narrow and windy road... Unfortunately it was also very bumpy. The road west to hwy 2 was in pretty good shape though.

As we head west we had to go through a number of towns like Sandpoint, Priest River,etc. We also stopped to check out the Albeni Falls dam before continuing north on hwy 20 in Washington.

As a side note, my check engine light continued to go on and off a couple times per gas fillup. The code remains 32 - malfunctioning oxygen sensors. However, my oxygen sesnsors have been disconnected to run the Powercommander... For more than a year!

It was getting dark and we were seeing lots of deer so wepulled into a campground near Usk.

After we had set up camp I went to the camp store to buy beer. The most interesting brew they had was Michelob Porter. I decided to take our chances, and after I paid the cashier said something about how bitter it was for a pale ale. I pointed out was a porter, not a pale ale, and that it was dark. She read the description 'dark from chocolate malts' and proceeded to haul up a 6 pack of Widmer Drifter pale ale. That's what she was talking about. I asked if i could trade the michelob for the Widmer and she said ok. The drifter was pretty pale for a pale ale, but it was still good.

We started to get bothered by yellowjackets again, and noticed we had set up under a tree with a yellowjacket trap 3/4 full. There must have been a pound of them in there!