Today was a pleasant day's cycling along quiet and fairly flat roads in warm sunshine with just a few minor hills. And Cedar RV Park is excellent - just what you want in a campground (water, electric gadget charging, showers and flush toilets, all very clean). We left the campsite at about 9.50am and noticed that we had a light following wind and flattish road. So the miles sped by. We followed N Leclerc Road which soon passed through a native American reservation - looked sufficiently prosperous. Unfortunately we were then chased by two largish dogs which darted out of a yard. This seems to be more prevalent on reservations I'm afraid - loose dogs. The were shouted at by me until they gave up, Guy has an impressiveway of just ignoring them and proceeding steadily. They may have been hit by pepper spray in earlier encounters because they were careful to avoid getting closer than about four feet, easy spraying range. This put me in such bad mood with the area that we sped past a cave that was used for Christian Native American worship, the Manressa Grotto. From what I've read it's an interesting mix of traditional Christian themes and Native American culture, bound to be an interesting thing... The road hurtled us along, with only a brief riverside stop for lunch - the River Pend Oreille. The river is named from one of the tribes of the area as named by early French explorers - the earring tribe I suppose in English. The river is very much a pleasure craft river with lots of landing stages along the banks, mountains in the distance. We completed 49 miles as we reached Ione, with an impressive average speed of 13.1mph, just after 2pm. A very early finish but the next stop is some way off and we need a campsite with showers and electric charging for the phone after two days with neither of these things. Just as we completed our campsite paperwork two other cyclists arrived, Jonathan and Joe from Denver, doing the Selkirk Loop, a well known route that takes in a large area of northwest USA and Canada. They are camping next to us on a comfy lawn. Maps have been looked at - especially maps of the Washington coast that we'll reach in about a week. They've nearly finished their ride, which includes gravel as well as tarmac. They've done some serious climbing. The climbs that we're about to do had also been done in the past. It was very heartening to meet to such enthusiastic cyclists after a couple of tougher days on our route, and it's a help with planning what to do at the coast. Rain is forecast overnight with some thunder. [Later...] the rain and thunder did turn up so sleep was interrupted but not too bad. It is still raining as I type but the forecast is for it to stop soon. We've got a proper 1000' climb so it'd be nice if we could climb in the dry. We are here.