Sandpoint to Dorr Skeel campground (71 miles)

What a memorable day, good food and awesome scenery.

After a rough night in Sandpoint, 40 frieght trains a day (and night), we left early for New Hope.  We had heard that there was a fantastic bakery there, which we were all looking forward to.  The morning was beautiful.  It was cool but sunny.  As we circled Lake Pend Oreille we encoutered some of the most beautiful scenery of the trip.  There were beautiful wetlands, great views of mountains, and amazing wildlife. 

Rest break, beautiful surroundings, though the road was really busy.

After 14 miles, we turned off the road to get to New Hope, thoughts of a cinimon roll and coffee circling through my head.  Only we pulled up to the bakery and found that it was closed.  What a disappointment!  We road a little further and part of our group had found pastries in a gas station, but I just couldn't get excited about them. 

Neat looking bakery, too bad it was closed.

I decided to push on to Clark's Ford instead, with hopes of a cafe or bakery in my mind.  What we found was perfect, a mennonite group had opended a small grocery store and bakery.  They were in the process of making fresh cinimmon bread, and carmel rolls.  After a roll and coffee I was feeling much better. 

Yum, I love bakeries!

Then the group headed on a scenic bypass of the main road that we had been on.  There were some gorgeous farms with fields of daisy's, all with amazing views of mountains in the background.  Then after a short trip on  dirt road we rolled into Heron, only to find another little store/backery.  There we all got $1 soft serve ice cream cones, yum!

There were several of these farms with fields full of daisy's.  Gorgeous.

Then came the long hot final section, we were going downhill but were still pedaling hard.  It just never seemed to end.  Finally, we pulled into our campground, completely hotted out and exhausted.  We quickly set up our camp, then got into the lake.  Brrr, boy was it cold, but it felt great.