Zippy Red Car

Flying Cloud is due for an oil change, tire rotation, brake check, and general check-up. Also, the Check Engine light came on, which is scary. I check out Yelp online to find the highest rated automotive service place in CdA and make an appointment with Silver Lake Automotive. When I arrive, I ask them to check…

CdA

So happy that Coeur d’Alene has an abbreviation – CdA. I saw it first in a newspaper article. Apparently others decided that typing that lowercase d followed by an apostrophe is a bit cumbersome. So CdA it is. CdA is a small city with 55,000 people, in the Idaho Panhandle. It is 15 miles from the…

Clean Fingernails in Coeur D’Alene

Reentry into civilization. Culture, coffee shops, healthy food, people, glorious people. In the parking lot, a cheery guy playing guitar to his lady, who was sitting in her car. Man in the choral concert Tuesday night with a man bun, something I have seen online but never in person. A friend from online who opened her…

Camper Bloopers

I am learning the ways of  Blue Moon– a camper twice the weight and height of Half Moon. That means camper blooper stories and lots of them. But first, I pulled into a Corps of Engineers (COE) campground near dark. I was so excited to find a wooded and gorgeous place right on Johnson Creek.…