A CHALLENGE FOR NO OTHER WOMAN
100 DAYS
20,598
MILES ACROSS
Sawtooth Mountains,
Highway75
Sawtooth Wilderness Area
Ralph enjoying his
birthday cigar at Smiley Creek Lodge. We
got one of the last rooms for the night and slept over the kitchen. Of course all the heat from the kitchen rose
into our room. Outside it was nice and cool
but we couldn’t let the door or windows open due to the lovely mosquitoes.
Sunset
over the Sawtooth Mountains.
Mile 16,804
The road took us right
thorough the middle of layers of fossils, ancient lava flows and old riverbeds.
White Salmon,
We returned to White
Salmon, to Bean Haven for the wedding of William and Jody.
The wedding was sweet and beautiful. On a hill, overlooking
Mt. Adam still covered in
snow, and the sun setting gently over the mountains to the west, Jody walked on
her father’s arm to meet her
new husband, William. The orange setting sun cast a sherbet color
on her long silken gown and her skin glowed with afternoon sun.
Her eyes shown with happiness as her father kissed her one last
time, as his little girl and turned Jody over to her new love.
William and Jody spoke their own vows of love and support for
each
other and commitment of such for a lifetime.
William’s life, to
me,
was now complete.
With a kiss and a hug,
the new Joiners were presented to family
and
friends and the sun bowed gracefully behind the mountains.
It was a sweet and beautiful wedding.
The rest of the evening
was spent in celebration and song. Here
William plays and sings to his new bride.