New Friends

From Saturday morning, at breakfast at the Lochsa Lodge.

The man Nancy had spoken to last night as I got us registered was there with his wife, having breakfast, when we arrived to eat this morning. We all sat together at a table to talk.

John Cunningham and Bess Pinon live in Portland, and they are bicycling from Lewiston, ID, up to Whitefish in Glacier National Park; once there, they will load the bikes onto an Amtrak train, and load themselves into a sleeper car, and twelve hours later (or maybe a couple days later - with Amtrak you never know), they will arrive at Union Station just a block from our future home in Portland, on their way home. John is also a registered Professional Engineer, and a Civil Engineer at that (he works in soils); Bess works for the library system there in Portland.

John and Bess are an interesting couple; we exchanged contact information so we can catch up with them later once we get settled in. We're excited to have already met people who live in our new town and who share our interests! We got a picture before they had to leave, so we will post that when we get to a computer on which some overzealous IT person has not blocked USB port access.