Lewiston and Clarkson

These cities, where the Clearwater River joins the Snake River, were obviously named after Lewis and Clark; they straddle both Idaho and Washington states respectively.  There is an excellent visitors' centre that presents details on their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and how they would never have succeeded without help from the First Nations (the Shoshone and Nez Perce tribes in particular).

We actually wanted to ride a jet boat down the deepest canyon in the US, on the Snake River in Hell's Canyon on the border of Idaho and Washington states.....BUT, another drawback of early spring motorcycling....the weather can be sketchy and with few tourists some things simply aren't running...so NO wild jet ride for us as they said only on Saturdays as not enough tourists to run it... damn it was only Tuesday and we weren't waiting!!