What in the World, Wallace?!

Our last drive of the adventure took us from Montana, through Idaho and then into Washington.  As we neared Idaho, the scenery turned into a luscious dark green mountain landscape. 

We planned on stopping in Idaho for some french fries in Coeur d'Alene, but we got into some horrible traffic and opted to pull off into Wallace.  Wow.  We are soooooo glad we did. 

Wallace, the original Largest Little City in the US, is a historic town in the middle of the mountains that claims they are the Center of the Universe, probably because this is where they filmed Dante's Peak

We immediately fell in love when we parked in front of the Cobblestone antique shop.  The owner, Mark was parked in front eating a watermelon in an old dentist chair.  He gave us a little tour of some of his best treasures, including the banner put up in town when Teddy Roosevelt came to visit, a knight suit from the 20's and a neon advertisement clock also from the 20's.

It was the Annual Historic Wallace Accordian Festival...

Not a clear picture, but this is Mark. He kept commanding us to "come on."

After strolling through some more stores and window gazing at taxidermy collections...

We were going to eat at this place we found on Yelp

but..

We grabbed a bite at The Smokehouse.  They have a smoker outside, so of course we had to try their pulled pork and brisket sandwiches. 

They didn't have french fries, but we did get our Idaho potato fix with potato salad.

On our way out of town, we dropped into this interesting joint for some coffee and landed in another antique museum of treasures.

The clock on the bottom has 1 - 4, and then "who gives a shit"