Liberty Lake is between Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington which are only about 30 miles apart. We thought it would make the perfect base for exploring the area. Friends from Casa Grande, Ron and M.J. Raynor, live in Coeur d’Alene and kindly introduced us to the area. Otherwise, we let geocaching be our guide to discovering interesting things to do and see.
Sunset from the RVIf you look closely, you can see there is a bit of metal that looks like a the top of a thimble in the bottom of this wasps’ nest. The nest is placed in the post of a street sign and is actually made of epoxy. It holds a container for a geocache log.The weather was gray but the Spokane River banks were full of interesting rocks.The aquifer flows into the Spokane River at this location.The Davenport Hotel is a Spokane landmark and was once considered the most famous and elegant hotel in the West.These gentlemen, parishioners we believe, were repairing some masonry on St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church in Rathdrum, Idaho. They kindly invited us to see the inside.Interior of St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church in Rathdrum, IdahoWe sought Idaho’s oldest cache above Priest Lake. The “road” ended here.Priest LakeThe temperature was 57 degrees on the mountain and 25 degrees warmer in the valley.This cache was hidden June 2000, the second month of the first year of geocaching. Score!Jane near Idaho’s oldest geocache
Sunday’s blue skies were a gift after several weeks of haze, smoke, and gray. We explored downtown Spokane.
Spokane hosted Expo ’74, a world’s fair that focused on the environment. This structure was the American Pavilion.Radio Flyer sculpture. It can hold 300 people but we’re not sure who would pull it.SundialBetween 1904 and 1907 Charles I.D. Loof built a carousel as a wedding gift for his daughter. Loof had previously built Coney Island’s carousel.Spokane hosts a Bloomsday Race each year for 50,000 people including youth and wheelchair racers. “The Joy of Running Together” by David Grovedare was created in honor of the run.A photographer stands ready 24/7 to immortalize visitors to Higgins Point on Lake Coeur d’Alene.Idaho’s first earth cache was at Cougar Bay Preserve and required us to find interpretive signs on trails that are now at best neglected.
August 4, 2022 Vermont’s oldest geocache was closer to our campground near Albany, New York than our campground near Montpelier, Vermont so we treated it separately from other Vermont geocaches. Besides, it was harder to Read more…
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Susan · August 14, 2021 at 11:11 am
Great pictures and you look like you are having fun