If you're luck enough to live at the lake, you're lucky enough.

Chimney Rock, Priest Lake, ID

This week we're at Donna's cousin - Thom & Mary's place - near Nordman, ID (Priest Lake). If you recall from last year, we were here and stayed at a RV Park in Coolin, ID.  This year we've moved closer to Thom & Mary and parked at a new RV Park at the Nordman Store.   Nice park, but no cell service unless you're hooked to the local WiFi located at the local bar's front porch.  Thom has added a cell booster at their house, so we bombard them each day and spend a couple of hours just on the internet or making phone calls while they go about their business.

It's been a quiet week.  Not a lot of sight seeing, but we've managed to visit our favorite resorts for breakfast or lunch.  We've made it down to Spokane to visit Thom & Sandy's mom, Dorothy, and enjoyed an evening dinner with Donna's uncle Larry, & aunt Lillian, and cousin Carol.  Another highlight of this week is one of Thom & Mary's granddaughters' birthday on Saturday.  As this is a quiet little place during the week, it'll be a rocking little place when all the relatives (both sides of the granddaughter's family) invade Nordman.  At least when it get too rockin', we can retreat to the trailer.

From here, current plans are to leave Sunday - along with most everyone else - and head to the Storm Mountain Youth Center at Rapid City, SD for our next NOMADS Volunteer period.  While that's a three week stint, we'll stick around anther 10 days or so as several friends with their RVs make it out to Custer, SD for a Hitchhiker Owner's Forum get-together and stay with them for the buffalo (bison?) roundup in late September at Custer State Park.  From there, it's south - at least that's the plan.

Later, David