Saturday, June 1, 2013 (Spokane, WA)

Well we got up early in order to do some research on what vets would be open on a Saturday in this area. We found a vet that was just half a mile down the road that could fit her in at 10:10.

We walked in a few minutes early and got Gracie checked in and didn’t have to wait long at all. The staff at the office were great and we really liked the vet. She gave us some information on Lyme disease and explained it in more detail and ruled out that Gracie had a bulls eye rash. Symptoms typically don’t appear for 3-4 months after they’ve been bitten, but she said that chances are very slim that Gracie will come down with Lyme disease because the tick wasn’t on her long enough and that Oregon and Washington do not have high incidences of Lyme disease. That was good news.

She then took a black light and looked at the rash, but it didn’t fluorescent, so it wasn’t ringworm, so that left bug bite. She said that in the summer she sees about 4 of these type rashes a week and they are from either a mosquito or a black fly. We kind of felt silly hauling Gracie into the vet for a bug bite, and probably wouldn’t have if it wouldn’t have been for that tick we pulled off her last week. Well for the peace of mind it brought to us, it was worth it.

After the vet visit, we went back to the fiver and had a quick bite of lunch and got the bikes packed up in the truck. We were going to do part of the Centennial Bike Trail today. We did the valley section of the trail from the Idaho stateline border toward Spokane; we rode about 20 miles today. It felt good to get out and get some good riding in and see some new areas. The bike trail was great, there was only one section that was a little rough, and otherwise it was smooth pavement and they even had a bridge over the river that was strictly for bikes. The weather was good bike riding weather, not too hot, not too cool. We were surprised that for a weekend that we didn’t see more bikes out. It was a great ride and one we’d definitely do again.



Centennial Bike Trail - Bridge over Spokane River



Spokane River

Water fountain along the trail

After our bike ride, we stopped at the Cabela’s store just over the border in Post Falls. We walked out without any purchases, that is one nice thing about life in a small space, you don’t have room to bring home lots of stuff.

After Cabela’s we tried to find the Liberty Lake Campground but our GPS lead us astray. I’m sure glad we weren’t pulling the fiver as we ended up on a gravel road that came to a dead end. As we were stopped to turn around, one of the neighbors came by and asked if we needed help, we told him, no we were just turning around and that we had been looking for the campground. He said that there was no public access on this road and that a lot of people end up where we did also. He was nice enough, but you could tell that he wasn’t real happy about it. It was late enough in the afternoon that we just decided to ditch the idea of finding the campground and head back to the fiver.

We had a nice dinner and another relaxing evening, a nice way to end a good day.