Country Dictionary

North Idaho theme park that keeps people out of my mountains. If one is riding to the top of the Panic Plunge, one may witness fatalities on the Goat Trail that runs by it, also known as Highway 95 and one of the nations' 9 deadliest highways. It used to be about a half hour from Coeurdifornia, but count on it taking longer now as the highways are packed with tourists.

North Idaho's Silverwood theme park has some great vantage points from which to observe traffic fatalities on the Goat Trail.

Idaho's Highway 95, often referred to as the Goat Trail, is one of the nation's 9 deadliest highways. If Coeurdifornians and others aren't careful, they will end up as fatalities.

You can easily ruin your vacation by becoming one of the many fatalities on Idaho's Highway 95, also known as the Goat Trail.

Ugly copper-roofed monstrosities (buildings) situated in Coeurdifornia, Idaho on once-eautiful Lake Coeur d'Alene. Motto: Greed rules!!!

When the Evil Empire enticed Californians to move to north Idaho, it was the beginning of the end for Coeurdifornia (once known as the peaceful and beautiful Coeur d'Alene).

Idaho's north-south route, Highway 95 (also known as the Goat Trail, is one of the nation's 9 deadliest highways. And that was BEFORE California ascended on us. Although portions of it have been improved, the good-old-boys in the southern Idaho legislature fail to adequately fund other badly-needed improvements. Meanwhile, the greedy folks in the tourism industry tirelessly promotes this place and people flock here. Expect many, many more fatalities. It's not a matter of it, it's a matter of when. Those of us who drove it before were already white-knuckled with semis riding our butts on one-lane roads in winter and summer and with deer and moose and other animals on the move - now we're REALLY white-knuckled with an added bunch of Californians who haven't a clue about how to drive and think they can defy physics. Good luck with that and I hope I'm around when they find out they can't. I drive 30,000 miles a year, drive defensively and am outta here as soon as I can see my way clear to go. (Be really careful if you're going to Silverwood theme park as they're been quite a few killed around there, too!)

Idaho's Highway 95 is a death trap.

Hagamonstrosity. Large, butt-ugly, towering, lakefront resort in Coeurdifornia, Idaho, Also knows as the Evil Empire by the rapidly dwindling local population (aren't rich enough to stay). While you're at the Hagamonstrosity, don't miss the outrageously expensive restaurant on the top floor for a taste of affectation and some of the weirdest - um, I mean, artfully arranged - looking food you've ever seen. Locals remember when the beach was accessible to the public (before the paid parking lot was put in). They were promised (in exchange for the loss of the beach) that they could use the boardwalk - which they can, except when it's closed off so the Evil Empire can promote it's business enterprises. Uglification continues with new structures being built even as I type. Gives to the community under the guise of doing good work when actually it's just PR.

You just can't miss the Hagamonstrosity when you're in Coeurdifornia, Idaho!

Half of California has already moved to North Idaho (the other half is on its way). Specifically what used to be the little town of Coeur d'Alene (though it's happening all over the region, nothing's sacred anymore). Money-hungry developers think this is the greatest place ever and have nearly obliterated the surrounding prairies and mountains with crackerbox houses and artifical lakes - or conversely, mansions only the extremely wealthy can afford. ALL HAIL THE ALMIGHTY BUCK! Coeurdifornia now has box stores, road rage and traffic jams, while cigarette boats and mosquitoes (personal watercraft) befoul our once clean and peaceful lakes. (After thirty years I've come to hate it and will be out of here as soon as possible. I'm going to... um, Death Valley. Don't follow me. It's not that great. Really!)

"Come to Coeurdifornia and (with thousands of other spectators) see nature on the run, up close and personal!"

Phrase that was commonly used by Idahoans in the late 1970's to refer to the Californians that were ascending on Idaho. Neither the practice nor the term will likely come back into vogue as there are now more Californians in Idaho - look at Coeurdifornia for instance - than there are Idahoans. Gut-shooting may not be legal, but many of them off themselves when they become fatalities on the Goat Trail, Idaho's Highway 95 and one of the nation's 9 deadliest highways.

In the 1970's, "Gut Shoot 'Em at the Border" bumper stickers were common on Idahoans vehicles.