After that, we hit the road for the long trek across Washington via Interstate 90. We encountered our first rain of the trip on this drive. Not very heavy though. We had been lucky with the weather. It had been perfect! Around mile 3590 we got to Spokane and stopped to look around. The rain had stopped by this time. We took a walk around the Spokane Falls. Another very nice little big town in the middle of nowhere. Actually, it turned out to be a really big town.
By mile 3627 we crossed the state line into Idaho. One of us slept through the entire state as we hit the Montana border at mile 3701. Montana is really a beautiful state. When we left I-90 to head north toward Glacier National Park, we took this mountain road with gorgeous scenery. Another road that followed a river, but somehow this one was even more special. It was a little dark by then, but you could still see everything.
At mile 3815 next to Flathead Lake, we hit the 1000-miles-from-home point according to the handheld GPS. Meaning we were 1000 miles "as the crow flies" from the home in southern California. Right after that, we stopped for the night near the town of Somers at the northern tip of Flathead Lake.
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