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    • TravelerNat'l Parks NE USA Summer 2020
      Day 3

      1. Relatives - Spokane & Colville

      August 8, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F

      After an overnight stay in Tri-cities WA, we began our trip with a visit to Craig's cousin in Spokane. Mike & Rosemary we're delightful hosts & showed us around the area.

    • England Honeymoon
      Day 1

      Starting the Honeymoon, Drive to Seattle

      June 28, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F

      Starting off the trip with a road trip to Seattle to catch our flight to London Heathrow airport 😁 after 2 days of flights being cancelled twice and delayed three times, we are finally starting off our Honeymoon!!!Read more

    • Sarah McCabeNorth America by Train
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      Day 18

      Weds Oct 19, 6:00 am: New engine

      October 19, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 39 °F

      Once the front half of the train had driven off, they had to add a new exterior door to the front of the new train so that passengers wouldn't try to walk from the lounge car into the engine.

      Then they backed our engine into place. Which involved having a rear spotter on the ground radioing to the engineer.

      Which reminds me of the infamous story of Joe using a very young Paul as a spotter as Joe backed the car up to a picnic table. I did not personally witness this event (I may not have even been born yet) but it has been part of our family lore as long as I can recall. The dialog goes something like this:

      Joe: Paul, I'm going to back up. Tell me when I get close.
      Paul: 10 feet! 8 feet! 7 feet!
      Joe: Goddammit! Don't keep shouting! Just tell me when I get close!
      Paul: [silence]
      Paul: [silence]
      Paul: [silence]
      Paul: 'bout an inch!
      *THUNK*
      Paul: You hit it!

      Anyway, this spotter monolog went more like: " 30 ... 20 ... 10 ... 5 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1. ..." [gentle clang]. It's almost like this wasn't their first rodeo.

      At this point, I didn't hang around to watch them reconnect the power and water, because I didn't want to take any risk of being left behind. So I headed back to my room. Shortly after I got there, the air flow turned on and sure enough we were on our way soon after that.      Read more

    • Sarah McCabeNorth America by Train
      Day 18

      Weds Oct 19, 5:45 am: Train separation

      October 19, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 39 °F

      The process to decouple the trains works as follows:
      1. Manually disconnect the first engine and drive it off.
      2. Manually disconnect power and water from two cars in the middle of the train.
      3. Manually disconnect the mechanical coupling in the middle of the train.
      4. Drive the new, shorter train off.

      Except in our case, for some reason they needed to swap the two engines. So after steps 1 & 2, they had to manually disconnect the second engine and drive it off, back the first engine up and reconnect it to the first train car (baggage car). Then proceed with steps 3 & 4.

      For most of the hour or so we were in the station, the back half of the train (my half) had no power connection which means no flushing toilets and no air flow. Good thing I was out on the platform and didn't care.      Read more

    • Sarah McCabeNorth America by Train
      Day 18

      Weds Oct 19, 5:30 am: Spokane, WA

      October 19, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 39 °F

      Right before I went to bed, we got stuck behind a broken down freight train again. It wasn't clear how long we waited there. Once we got going, they tried to make up time by going as fast as possible, but they also had to pull aside fairly often so as to not obstruct other trains that were still on schedule. So the night was a mixture of very rocky (because they were driving this train like they stole it) and very still (as we waited on sidings for other trains to go by).

      So that meant we arrived in Spokane about 2.5 hours late. Which is actually a good thing because we got there around 5:30, instead of 3 am. Well, it was good for me, because I was up and could go watch the process of splitting the train into two pieces (one going to Seattle, one going to Portland). Not so good for the folks who were scheduled to get on the train at 3 am and got the added bonus of waiting in the station in the middle of the night for their train.

      Before they separated the train, they boarded the Seattle bound passengers on their part. They also loaded up on water. There was a whole forklift full of calcium chloride that I finally figured out they used as a deicing agent for the puddles on the platform that came from the water hoses.      Read more

    • Michigan 2023
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      Day 155

      Annie at Gonzaga

      September 27, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 55 °F

      So I will be honest, I am trying to rapidly catch up on posting my Finding Penguins travel diary. I need to catch up because I don't have time to read Linley and Kristi's traveling posts if I don't!

      We had a wonderful day today, in spite of the ongoing cloudy and rainy weather. We had a chance to meet with Annie (Jeanie's daughter) for lunch near the Gonzaga campus. We got to tour her house which was darling (six girls sharing), they each have a bedroom; only two bathrooms- but that's still doable!

      We had lunch across the street and had a chance to chat and catch up. Then Annie took us on a tour through the Gonzaga campus. We had a chance to see where she works, to see the community garden, and just get a general feel for this very nice campus. It looks especially nice right now, planted with lots of flowers, because it seems that parents weekend is next weekend. Annie suggested that most of this will be gone shortly as the snow will be here at some point in the near future. Tom and I love this campus, relatively small, but really well maintained.      Read more

    • Michigan 2023
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      Day 153–156

      Spokane next

      September 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

      We were sorry to leave Glacier National Park but my goodness it is late September and we really need to think about getting home at some point. Hopefully we'll be back one day with some sunshine and time to hike.

      Drove on to Spokane, about a 250 mi drive. Nice drive parts of it were a long the Clark fork River which was really a beautiful drive. Drove through the town of Paradise which looked like it had gone through a pretty severe fire. Lunched at St Regis and had some puppy time in the dog park. Bison burgers with huckleberry barbecue sauce for lunch, delicious. Huckleberry is a very big thing out here in Montana.

      Got into our home for the next three nights, the North Quest RV Resort. It is attached to a casino and is relatively new, about 3 years old. Big, asphalt paved sites, beautiful check-in office and clubhouse, really nice showers and restrooms... but the trees still have a ways to go.

      Day two here at our temporary home in Spokane was really dedicated to laundry, cleaning up the RV, grocery shopping and giving Charlie a little bit more time at the dog park.

      I had my first introduction to a future bagless shopping experience. After completing about a $200 grocery purchase, I was told at the checkout that they do not offer plastic bags for 5¢ each. In the state of Washington, all Walmarts, no longer offer plastic bags. You can purchase a more durable recyclable solution for 73 cents a bag or elect to try to carry all of your items out to the car without a bag. I relented and bought two bags but the rest of the items I packed into the cart, rolled it to the jeep, packed them all into the jeep, drove to the RV park and unloaded all those single items into the RV. I really appreciate the plastic bag issue at this moment. I will probably never forget to walk in a store without my own bags!      Read more

    • TravelerSummer 2020 trip
      Day 72

      Old friends and “oh you didn’t hear?”

      September 6, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F

      On Saturday, we reconnected with Alvin and Laurie Thompson at their home just 15 minutes where we set up camp.

      We got caught up with their kids, parents and new active retired ministry.

      As I was relaxing and going to bed, I zipped off a quick email to Sue Brunemeier, a long lost friend from Cochabamba who lives in Spokane. (When we were in Spokane back in 2005 and we forgot to call Mark and Sue up, I made a mental note to myself to remember).

      This morning when I checked my email, sure enough there was an email from Sue. She suggested a Denny’s off of I 90 on our way to Seattle.

      We had to load the Scion in the Fred Myers’s parking after Glenn filled Magnolia up with gas (Kroger).

      As Sue was sitting down, I asked where Mark was and her reply instantly drummed up tears and complete shock to my face. “oh you didn’t hear? He died of instant heart attack just over a year ago.”

      For the next hour we talked about his untimely death, emotional and support system and old friends from NTM and SAMAir days in Bolivia.

      It was very emotional to spend breakfast with Sue and learn at the same time of his death and heart attack. It made me realize that “our days are numbered” and to be thankful for the 40+ years I’m enjoying with Glenn
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    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Spokane County, مقاطعة سبوكان, Спокан, স্পোকান কাউন্টি, Kantono Spokane, Condado de Spokane, Spokanei maakond, Spokane konderria, شهرستان اسپوکن، واشینگتن, Comté de Spokane, Spokane megye, Contea di Spokane, スポケーン郡, Spokane Kūn, Hrabstwo Spokane, سپوکین کاؤنٹی, Comitatul Spokane, Округ Спокен, Спокен, سپوکین کاؤنٹی، واشنگٹن, Quận Spokane, Condado han Spokane, 斯波坎縣

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