Sun, rain or smoke?

Often times, we travel and only worry about getting a perfect weather, that is sunny instead of rainy or overcast, right? Well, that's not counting on forest fires and on horizons and vistas blurred by persistant thick smoke.

That's just what happened to us as we were planning to push north towards Coeur d'Alene and even perhaps as far North as Glacier National Park. Just as the song “Smoke gets in your eyes” says it so well, we concluded that we couldn't afford to cry to much about it and instead, we decided to cut our trip much shorter!