June 14

June 14 - Doug Gardner - we rode 89 miles from Council to White Bird, ID. We ate breakfast in Council....the usual of two eggs, sausage, 2 pancakes, and coffee. We have eaten lots of huge pancakes, again another thing these places pride themselves on the size of. We rode to the next town of New Meadows where we met Archie who donated the cost of lunch to Ride for Jim. He also chased us down the Highway after we ate to give us copies of a poem he had written about his favorite state, Idaho . We had a beautiful ride to a town called White Bird, where we stayed at Hoots cafe and motel. We gathered up all our dirty clothes and laundered them with total disregard for separation of whites and colors, and toast the wives in the process. Hoots had great rooms and good meals. We had ridden along the Salmon River that day and witnessed many fishing for Salmon, prior to entering Riggins where we had an early dinner. White Bird was the site of a military engagement with the Nez Perce Indians who were native to the Bitteroot Mountains.