ANSWERS FOR US.....QUESTIONS FOR THEM

We started our vacation greeting Mike and Cori at the airport Friday afternoon. After securing our transportation for the week..... a Ford Explorer, getting all of our luggage packed away inside.....no small feat, we were on our way! This was Mike and Cori's first time in Spokane, so as we drove through the city to our rooms at the Inn by the Lake, we pointed out some landmarks for them. (I of course pointed out the Starbucks)

We arrived in Newport at our Bed and Breakfast and were delighted with the accommodations and the beautiful views from the house on Diamond Lake, as the photo shows. As I told Craig, I could live in just one of the rooms looking out over the lake and be perfectly content. After getting settled in our rooms we took off to explore the area. Over the next two days we checked out both northern Washington and Idaho.

We drove out to the RV Resort where we have purchased our lot for our park model home. This was the first time we had seen the area when it wasn't covered with snow. They are progressing with putting in the storage sheds and crushed rock pads on the lots. We also saw quite a few people already setting up home there for the spring and summer. After walking around the grounds we were quite happy with our decision to live there. It was even more beautiful than we remembered and we are looking forward to calling it "home" in the near future.



As we traveled around we came upon Deer Park and found an RV dealer who had three Park Model Homes for us to look through. We were so happy to see the model we liked and that we could custom order it to our liking. We walked away having all the answers we were looking for. However, for Mike and Cori, the question of what area to relocate to was still in the air.

So off we went checking out Loon Lake, Priest River, and Sandpoint . Cori fell in love with the downtown district of Sandpoint and we had a great dinner at the Hydra Restaurant. We headed south on our quest and drove to Coeur d'Alene and took a nice little drive along the lake. Although it was raining most of the day we didn't mind getting a little wet to walk around.

We are thoroughly enjoying this time away from the truck Although we feel as if we are on vacation all the time, this has been a delight to travel around and leave the driving to someone else. Our thanks to Mike for taking the driving duties!