Priest River Home- Final Walk-thru (Coeur d'Alene, Sandpoint: taxes, store, food)

[Publius4]

I used to pronounce Dufort the same way you did in the video. Over the last few months I've heard several locals pronounce it "Dufert".

There's also a small grocery in Oldtown where 41 and 2 merge. I can't think of the name. It's no bigger than Mitchel's though.

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Absolutely "dufert"!

[Disciple1975]

Originally Posted by Clark Fork Fantast

Absolutely "dufert"!

More like "Dooofert"

[sierra don]

I figured I'd get something wrong in the vid. I'm learning some things are not as they appear in Idaho. I had to look up Pend Oreille (pronounced: pond-ə-ray) to get the correct pronunciation when I first started looking in the area, looks like it should be pronounced as Pend Oreally. Oh well live and learn, and I'm more than willing to learn.

Closed on the house today and it is all paid for.....WooHooo, we are officially Idaho property owners, and only thing I have any plans on changing is stuff on my property and even that would be minimal , like Idaho just the way it is. Soon Ca. will only be a memory from the past.

In my life I have lived in many places, born in Az., lived in Ca. top to bottom, lived in Conn, Mass and RI. Lived in the desert, the coast, high in the mountains, flat woodlands and my favorite has always been the mountains. Figured where I currently live would be the last place I would live but 20+ years later Idaho won me over, goodbye El Dorado National Forest and Hello Kaniksu National Forest.

Thanks to everyone who posts on the Idaho forum, I've learned a lot and will continue to learn about Idaho and it's past history.

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Originally Posted by sierra don

I figured I'd get something wrong in the vid. I'm learning some things are not as they appear in Idaho. I had to look up Pend Oreille (pronounced: pond-ə-ray) to get the correct pronunciation when I first started looking in the area, looks like it should be pronounced as Pend Oreally. Oh well live and learn, and I'm more than willing to learn.

Closed on the house today and it is all paid for.....WooHooo, we are officially Idaho property owners, and only thing I have any plans on changing is stuff on my property and even that would be minimal , like Idaho just the way it is. Soon Ca. will only be a memory from the past.

In my life I have lived in many places, born in Az., lived in Ca. top to bottom, lived in Conn, Mass and RI. Lived in the desert, the coast, high in the mountains, flat woodlands and my favorite has always been the mountains. Figured where I currently live would be the last place I would live but 20+ years later Idaho won me over, goodbye El Dorado National Forest and Hello Kaniksu National Forest.

Thanks to everyone who posts on the Idaho forum, I've learned a lot and will continue to learn about Idaho and it's past history.

A great day! And all paid for, too! That's wonderful.

Pend Oreille, Coeur d'Alene, all memories of a colorful past involving French trappers and local Indian tribes. I love Idaho history. I love CA history, too--just not so much the recent part...

About shopping: You'll love Yoke's in Ponderay, and Super 1 Foods across from Safeway, a few streets over. And there's a big new natural foods supermarket over by Dub's. When we're in CF we also go to Sandpoint to stock up, about once or twice a week. I can see us going to CdA or Spokane once a month when we get settled. And then we'll complain about having to go to the Big City!

[kayaker6]

Awesome video and congratulations to you Sierra Don!

I have a cabin in the Hoo Doo Valley between Priest River & Spirit Lake. Your video crossing the Pend Oreille River and along Dufort is making me miss Idaho even more than I do now. We're a year and a half away from making Idaho our new home from the East Coast.

Good Luck to you and keep posting. I do appreciate all that I learn from this forum!

Thanx

[Publius4]

[quote=Clark Fork Fantast;41254440][And there's a big new natural foods supermarket over by Dub's./[quote]

That's WinterRidge. It's a much smaller version of Pilgrim's Market but they still get the job done. I spent some time talking to the butcher and he seems real switched-on about providing non-conventional, healthy meat.

[Native Idahoan]

I am so incredibly happy for you, Sierra Don. You are going to have so much fun with your new home.

As a side note, I just ordered "Legendary Lake Pend Oreille" for hubby for Christmas. I think he's gonna love it. He's really interested in the history of North Idaho, like lots of folks on the forum.

[sierra don]

Thanks everyone for watching my video and glad ya'll liked it. Also thanks for information of some of the local stores and such, will have to check them out.

Native Idahoan, thanks for the pointing in the direction of the book "Legendary Lake Pend Oreille", I have added it to my Amazon wish list to purchase at a later date, looks interesting.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend....

-Don

[oldafretired]

Congrats! That's a very nice place you found. Thanks for posting the great video. Hope you get to move to your new house very soon.