Idaho and Canadian border areaPlaces Visited: July 3, 2007. We are staying in Pair-A-Dice RV-Park, in Creston, British Columbia. $26.71 gravel interior roads, FHU including cable. This is an OK RV Park.
We are moving the motorhome from Sandpoint, Idaho to Creston, British Columbia today. As we head north out of Sandpoint on US 95 we can tell we are in hay country as well as lumber country. Hay fields fill the valleys while timber rules the mountains. The importance of hay is captured in this picture with one 18-wheeler load of hay disappearing on the extreme left side of this picture then the last two 18-wheelers in this picture are loaded with hay.
The Elmira Store is located in the small community of Elmira on US 95 north of Sandpoint, Idaho. We just loved the name.
I was driving our motorhome when we saw this 45-mph sign it was evident that they were serious. Four blinking lights! Needless to say I made sure that I was going 45 when we traversed this area.
Sometimes the view of the valley from US 95 is spectacular.
This is typical scenery in this part of northern Idaho.
Valleys seem to be covered with hay operations.
US 95 threads its way though a beautiful green valley.
Hay and old barns team up to produce spectacular scenery.
Farmers are in the fields working from daylight to dark.
We are now within one mile of the Canadian border.
Downtown Creston, British Columbia is all decked out with colorful flowers.
After getting the motorhome set up in the RV Park we headed out on a scenic drive that carried us to Yahk, British Columbia where we stopped at a small place specializing in goat milk soaps. These colorful flowers greeted us from the front porch.
And this goat greeted us from the roof. That is a real goat. There is grass on the roof.
This is the front of the Goat Mountain Soap Company complete with sod on the roof and a goat in that goat house. Goats access the roof via that ramp on the left side of the porch roof.
Just down the street from the Goat Milk Soap Company in Yahk was this eclectic store. We probably should have stopped but we already had a list of things to accomplish today and this place didn't fit in.
From Yahk we headed back into the US. Most of this route is through the forest but occasionally we get a view of the valley below.
After crossing the border we followed US 95 south probably 15-miles until it intersected with SR 1. This is the same route we took into Canada earlier today, but this time we are in the Saturn and are going to take some side roads down into the valley to check out the hops fields. I know that the largest hops field in the world, over 1,800 acres is located in the valley straddling the Idaho, Canadian border.
Hay, and grain fields dot the valley but hops fields are eluding us.
We had to stop and take a picture of this "Charmin" plant. By now you should recognize this as the plant that travelers on the Oregon Trail used for toilet paper because the leaves are "soft as Charmin". Besides this Charmin plant the valley is covered with grain from one side to the other.
They have to set aside some space to store the grain they are growing.
This is just a breathtaking view of hay fields juxtaposed against grain fields and huge rolls of hay.
Grain elevators come in all shapes and sizes.
Mowing hay.
This is a glacier carved mountain, they are fairly easy to recognize once you have seen a few.
It seems like farmers are working almost every hay field in the valley.
The fellow in the red shirt is driving this hay rig. He is stacking one row of hay while the yellow arm on this side of the vehicle is placing a new bail of hay on the wagon.
This hay machine has the pick up apparatus on the right side of the vehicle.
Finally we get to the hops fields. We did not get to them until we got to within one-mile of the Canadian border. Hops are grown on a trellis. Hops looks like a vine to me with one plant growing up a string like a pole bean.
This is what the fields of hops look like.
As we reached the border we noticed a side road at the border station. We cut down that road looking for a way to get closer to the hops fields. There happened to be a country store on that road within just a few hundred feet of the border check point. This sign was outside that store. We can only imagine what a Pick'n & Chick'n part is.
Back in Creston, British Columbia the sun is setting over the mountains bordering the Creston Valley.
This farmer stopped for supper with his bailer about to "deliver" a large bale of hay. We passed back by this field 15-minutes later and the farmer had returned from supper and was back to bailing more hay.
The sunset didn't cooperate tonight so we headed back to the motorhome minus a good sunset picture.
Back in Creston the falling sun is shining on the cliff to the east of Creston. Eons ago large glaciers carved rock off the face of this cliff depositing the moraine near Rathdrum, Idaho.
Until next time remember how good life is. Mike & Joyce Hendrix
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