While we are heading out tomorrow, today we had the opportunity to take our neighbour up on an offer to go swimming. Yes we have a neighbourhood, neighbours, locals that wave and stop to chat, and of course pet Winston in this great little inner city campground. We were going to go to the mall to find a shirt that stated “I lived in Trail”. We figure that if you have been in one spot more than 30 days you are a resident. However the offer to go in someone’s personal vehicle to an actual swimming hole was far more meaningful and seemed like an appropriate celebration for our last day.
The swimming was great! And we finally got the opportunity to use the two pool noodles that Barb brought with us that Lori has been trying to cut for the slide outs so she can stop banging her head. Barb on the other hand finds this humorous and has been fighting it all the way convinced that we were going to use them someday to swim.
We swam in Pend Oreille river which was warm and didn’t have any current, unlike the Columbia river we visited a few weeks ago when Sharon visited. The Pend Oreille river is a tributary of the Columbia River, and is 130 miles long originating from Lake Pend Oreille in the Idaho Panhandle. It flows northwesterly until it joins the Columbia River in southeastern BC. It has huge cliffs on one side, seriously glorious. In our pictures you won’t see the noodles as Barb said we needed to hide them under the water. In fact, what Barb really said was “Lori control your noodle!”
The day was so enjoyable we were a little sad we only did this once while we were there. However we were also thankful we did get the chance to do this on our last day!!!
We will be happy to leave Trail, but sad to see it go. We really have made some friends here, whether only for a few days, or for the duration of our stay. It has been wonderful as we learned you really get to know a place when youn hang out for a bit versus just passing through.
