Stress and Not-Russia

Odometer: 73970.9

Stress is an interesting thing. It can assault us when we least expect it. I, for one, have been stressed off and on since last night. The first reason: our inverter, which allows us to charge our laptop, camera, and several other things, broke. I tried to fix it, without success. Walmart, Best Buy, and Target all proved to not have good replacements, so we had to settle for a lesser substitute. (This is why we were not able to post last night. Our laptop was dead and, at the point it was realized that it would not be fixed, I didn’t feel like typing up a post on one of our phones.)

That aside, I foolishly have allowed other things to stress me, when I shouldn’t, but that is water under the bridge, and not of interest!

To our travels!

Yesterday, we departed Walla Walla, and drove up to Clarkston (and Lewiston) and took most of the day driving around, walking the downtown and looking in on houses for sale. (This was for fun, not because we want to live in C/L). In the evening, we took a walk down a greenbelt boarding the Snake River, allowed the dogs to go for a swim, and enjoyed a sporadic sprinkling of rain drops.

Today, we woke early, tried a new cereal, and headed off in search of a dump station. We found one easily, emptied our dirty tanks, filled our clean one, and were on our way!

We scaled the steep grade to get out of the C/L valley and were rewarded with an amazing view.

We drove through Moscow, without leaving the continent, and made it up to Coeur d’Alene. We stopped through a park near North Idaho University and one of the many lakes that fill these mountains. The park was lovely, and the puppies had a blast playing in the lake.

Finally, we finished our day with the acquisition of a temporary inverter, a wonderful meal, and a not quite as late as usual post.

So, as you can see, we are having fun and doing our best to not let the little things get us down.

We hope that this finds you in management of your little stresses and enjoying the larger things in life.