Spokane Visit

A trip down memory lane - I was in Spokane last week visiting Sandy, a childhood friend that I had not seen for many years.  We grew up living right next door to each other until we were 12 years old.  I have not been to Spokane for a very long time so Sandy and I spent several hours visiting our old stomping grounds.  We had a blast!  The highlight of the week was Ziplining in Wallace Idaho at Silver Streak Zipline Tours. What an experience!

The guides get you all suited up at the home base in Wallace. Then you climb into a large truck for the ride up to the ziplines.

 

Sandy is all geared up and ready to go.

Nick and Ian were our guides for the afternoon. The entire process takes about two hours and you ride 6 different lines.

Sandy is getting hooked up to the trolley that you hang onto with your hands while zipping down the line. 

 Sandy has just stepped off the platform.

 

 

Sandy is approaching the platform and is getting ready to grab the orange line, which is part of the braking system. The last line is a dual line where you can race the person next to you. Sandy and I are approaching the platform.

The longest zip line is 1100 feet and you reach speeds of 50-60 MPH.

The views of the surrounding mountain ranges and of Wallace were spectacular.

 

Beer is provided at the end as a reward for finishing the trip.

 

We went to Riverfront Park and rode the historic Looff Carousel.  As far as we can remember there was not one child on the carousel during this ride, but there was an entire football team on board.

The Spokane Falls are pretty low right now, but we still had fun riding the new gondolas.

I took the next few photos around Riverfront Park.  

The famous garbage eating goat from the 1974 Worlds Fair, and yes, he is still eating. 

We took a drive up Mt. Spokane and visited several harvest businesses in Greenbluff. We stopped and took this photo while driving up the mountain. The road has not changed one bit. 

The road to the newest lodge was blocked off so I could only get a photo of the runs and the old lodge. the Vista House can be seen in the top right corner of the photo.

We also spent a few hours visiting our old neighborhood and checking out some of the houses that friends and family have lived in.  This is the house my family lived in until I was in the 6th grade.
 

This is the backyard of the same house but showing the garage my Dad built.

This is the house, right next door to the one above, where Sandy lived through high school.

Dale and MaryAnn Moll lived in this house, a few doors down from our house.

My grandmother on my Mom's side lived in this house on Cleveland for many, many years.

Mom and Dad moved into this house on Juliann Drive in 1966.  The house is just a couple of blocks 

from Whitworth University.

This was my house on Hughes Drive off County Homes Blvd.

I took Sandy on her first Geocaching adventure and she found a cache!  We had a great time catching up with each other after all these years.