Saturday, June 10, 2000

This was a rest day. We spent the day in Wallace ID shopping and being tourists. After eating breakfast we went through the museum in the old Northern Pacific railroad depot. It was moved from one side of the river to the other to allow construction of Interstate 90 over the railroad tracks. It is a beautiful building where the upstairs was either used as rooms for railroad workers or as an apartment for the stationmaster. When Mary Kay and I climbed the stairs to the second floor, we both knew that we really needed a rest day.

After looking in a couple of stores for leg warmers (one pair of ours melted in a commercial dryer in St. Maries) we went on the Sierra Silver Mine Tour. This was a tour of an inactive silver mine where they actually ran some of the pieces of equipment such as a jackhammer, dragline, and mucker. Every piece of machinery was powered by air.

When we got back from the tour, we ate lunch (about 2:30 PM) and then shopped again for those leg warmers. We bought a present for Mary Kay’s father and then toured a mining museum. When we got out of the mining museum we went back to the first store were we looked for the leg warmers and bought a pair of long johns, from a store that has been in existence for over 100 years. I wore the long john bottoms on Sunday and they worked great at keeping my upper legs and knees warm. We returned to our room and found that the front tire of the bicycle was flat. Inspection of the tube showed that the hole in the tube was too big to patch with glue less patches. Therefore, I put in a different tube, threw away the old tube and bought a replacement tube. This ended the day.