After two nights in Ritzville we decided to spend our third and last night on the otherside of the county, in Othello. On the way we’ll see the towns of Paha and Lind.

Our stay in Ritzville was almost flawless and allowed us to see Ralston, Benge, and Washatnu. But there is more to see. We started at 9:00 a.m. by heading south on U.S. 395, weather overcast. No rain. We passed Paha and didn’t know it. There is no sign for the town so we went straight for Lind.

Lind was still asleep as we made it into town on a saturday morning. I photographed all sides of downtown. Then we stopped into the local grocery store where I spoke with the clerk for some time about cameras and birding. We left and went back to Paha. There is no designated exit for a town called Paha. There is an exit for a road called Paha and we took it. We believe that we saw and investigated the remnants of paha. We then went up the Paha road and travelled into the hills going away from the highway. I stopped at the crest and got out to take some panaramic pictures of the wheat covered hills. I looked behind me and noticed and obelisk. I looked closer and saw headstones. An almost unreadable sign had the word cemetary. I investigage and got some shots. The obelisk has a name on it with a death date of June 1907. I will try to do some investigating when I’m home.

After a quick rest Area stop we entered the town of Othello. Finding the downtown was tricky. We never did find it because there really isn’t a downtown, just a city spread out on a grid pattern. E Main is as close as you get to a downtown in Othello. Unimpressed we hit the Columbia Wildlife Refuge and explored where we could.

On the way to our hotel we stopped at the “old Motel” which has a caboose from the Milwaukee railroad line.