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I visited Wyoming back in September 2021 - Jackson Hole to be exact. I screwed up with the hotel reservations and got a motel in Driggs, Idaho, so I drove back and forth over a mountain range nearly every day. I loved it. While there, I spoke with a woman who worked as a real estate agent. She told me that home prices are sky rocking in the area due to people moving from the left coast. I think though that I could see myself living in either Idaho or Wyoming.

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It's beautiful around Driggs, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and close to the Tetons and Yellowstone.

North Idaho is world's different from Southern Idaho. We are on the subranges of the Rockies and close to big Montana/Idaho/Canada mountain ranges -- the Cabinets, Selkirk and Purcell mountain ranges are amazing. Some of the most primitive remaining country in the USA is in and around the Cabinets in western Montana.

North Idaho is getting crowded. Big money moving in, growth and subdivisions everywhere, and prices took a huge leap during and after COVID. It's really been discovered since COVID. My mom was born here in 1927 and we visited her folks a lot when I was a kid on long trips from NYS. So I've seen all the horrible changes. But, when the country grows from 150 million people to 340 million, those things happen. When I was a kid, the towns in Idaho still exuded that late 1800s low-key, hard-working western charm of logging, mining, and ranching towns. Now most places look alike with lots of tourist, superhighways and chain stores.

There are quite a few Amish in Montana and North Idaho. I was in the wonderful "Miller's Country Store" in Sandpoint ln Tuesday. Delightful place filled with hard-working and kindly Amish.

Here are three shots from Tubbs Hill in Coeur d'Alene the past few days. If you ever get up this way, give me a shout!