June 13

June 13, Doug Gardner - Today we rode from Oxbow, OR and crossed over into Idaho, ending in a town called Council. There was no restaurant in Oxbow so we had more than 20 miles to ride to Cambridge to get a real meal. Between meals we consume trail mix, candy bars, honey buns, and peanut butter on crackers. Lunches are usually cheeseburgers but we are beginning to tire of them. These small town restaurants pride themselves on the size of their burgers...one place made a 2 pounder meant to be a family meal. We wound through some canyons, saw mountain goats, and could not figure out why rivers seemed to be flowing in direction opposite us when we felt we were going downhill. We dunked our heads in a frigid mountain stream to cool down only to be outdone by Howard who leaped in like a frog and achieved total submersion. We slept that night in the Old City Hall campground for free, bought a shower for $5.00 from a local RV campsite, and charged our phones in an electrical outlet on the outside of the Council Post Office, which was adjacent to the campground. We found ourselves to be hungry late so we strolled into downtown where a local kindly took us to the local convenience store for packaged sandwiches and drinks, waited on us to shop and then took us back to the campsite.