| Campground: | Snowberry Campground, Athol, ID 83801: |
| Total Distance: | 8742 Miles |
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| Key Highlights: | Shopping and drinking in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, Border crossing to the US, Farragut State Parkrag. |
Last moments in Canada – before crossing the border to the US – we stopped at nice Cranbrook – starting with the inevitable “Dollar Rama” store and some other nicer shops that offered bulk spices and pasta. We found out that the farmer’s market took place downtown – and we were surprised to find some more authentic (aka with real farmed product) markets. What got our attention for the Fire-Hall kitchen and tap – that offered tasty salmon Poke and beer to arm us on our way. The highlight of the visit was a stop at Rick’s fine meats – where we bought some of the most amazingly looking Tomahawk steaks ever.
The big advantarure was,, as usual to cross the boarder back to the US with our RV. This is like playing Russian rollete on things that our RV was loaded with. The rules seems to be changing all the time , and between territories. So while we tried to dispose all firewood we got in Canada (and keep only the sealed bags we had from the US), we learned we just need to stop at the boarder and declare everything we have. The Agriculture officer was not very friendly this morning – and he wanted us to declare by heart whatever we had:”anything you don’t declare will cost you $300 he said”. Thank god Ruti never forgets, and a few minutes later, he came back with a list of all that he disposed of (Tomatoes, papers, eggs, etc). The problem was – that he found 3 small parts of the wood in the truck (really small) that he said could not come to the US – and he could not dispose of them – so…. he turned us back to Canada to dispose of them ourselves. that was hilarious to get deported back to Canada, cross the border, and the Canadian officer was smiling – pointing his finger to the pile of wood they had just 1 meter next to his gate: where we added our wood, made a U-turn, and made it safely to the US!
No wonder the first thing we did in Idaho was to buy food again and head to the fantastic state park of Farragut for a spectacular sunset on the lake , and great dinner at extra large and quite campsite