Tomorrow morning we’re headed out in the motorhome on our way to Heron, Montana. Kirk, Dawnmarie, and family are there visiting with Kirk’s family. We’ve had their oldest daughter Madison here for the past week making sure that she’s thoroughly spoiled and will deliver her back to her family on Saturday afternoon.

The plan is to stay in Heron for about a week, visiting and playing. Dawnmarie and Kirk are leaving at the end of next week to drive back to Pennsylvania. We’ll leave about the same time for another week of playing. We’re going to drive around the International Selkirk Loop. We’ll start in Sandpoint, Idaho and go counter-clockwise around the loop … through Bonners Ferry, cross into Canada, through Creston, Crawford Bay, and Nelson, back into the US at Metaline, Washington, south through Cusick and Priest River. The main route is about 280 miles but we’ll take several side trips. We’ve not spent any time in that part of the country and we’re quite ready to take a short vacation.

We’ll avoid freeways on our way up and around the loop. We’ll probably come home on the freeway just because there’s not much other option. By keeping the speed down I’m hoping to get around 10 mpg in the motorhome. So the route: We’ll go to Blackfoot, then east to Challis, north through Salmon, Idaho and Hamilton, Montana to Missoula, Montana. Then we’ll head northwest to Heron. A week later we’ll head to Sandpoint and do the loop. Then we’ll probably come home on I-90 to I-15 to Pocatello. We’re planning to be home on Saturday, July 5th. This should be a lot of fun! Pictures and blog posts coming, as well as the occasional twitter.