Headed Home - To Whitefish to Catch the Train

Sunday - July 27 - The Empire Builder doesn't come until this evening so we had plenty of time to go to breakfast at The Base Camp Cafe in Columbia Falls. The waffles were so huge that Doug had to finish parts of both mine and Lori's. We got a some more pictures uploaded to draft blog posts but still are way behind.

"Now really Toad, don't you think Cody will notice that his bike repair rack is missing? And just how do you plan to ride with it anyway?"

It is just "See you later". We will be seeing Lori again in 2 weeks when our daughters join us for a week on bikes checking out the San Juan Islands and Victoria.

The Flathead River looks like a pleasant place to spend this warm afternoon. Fortunately, there wasn't much wind at all today so we made really good time to Columbia Falls. Didn't take many pictures since it was the same route we took from Columbia Falls on Friday.

Just east of Whitefish we stopped at this place for some huckleberry pie. However, they only sold whole pies so we had to settle for some fresh Flathead cherries which are yummy too.

We enjoyed the carvings too. This one is just a little too big to fit it our panniers.

Whitefish on the horizon. We had dinner before going to the train station. That worked out just fine as the train was 2 hours behind schedule and we were 1/2 hour ahead of schedule.

The Whitefish Amtrak Station.

We had plenty of time to get the bikes in their boxes.

We also had plenty of time to wander around the station. These guys were in a pond in the park across the street.

We sorted pictures but didn't make much other progress on the blog since there wasn't any Wifi in the station. We finally boarded the train at 11 p.m.