Blue View – The True Cost of Biking
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The cost of our bikes was only a small portion of the actual money we spent getting into our new biking adventure. We were quite surprised when we tallied it all up…
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On the Route of the Hiawatha
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When we learned about the Route of the Hiawatha, we were reminded of Longfellow’s famous poem, The Song of Hiawatha. We figured since we’d just been on the Trail of the Coeur D’Alenes, named after a Native American tribe, that the Route of the Hiawatha was named similarly. Au contraire, mes amis! It’s named after a train.
Read MoreBlue View - The Coeur d’Alenes
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The GART passes through this part of Idaho via a 72 mile bike path called the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes. I assumed it was named this because it follows the Coeur d’Alene River. In actuality, the path as well as the lake and river are named for the Coeur d’Alene Native American tribe.
In my ignorance, I didn’t know there was a Coeur d’Alene Native American tribe…
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