WANDERING WILBURY'S: Part #1 - 2 Weeks in the middle of NOWHERE

Where do I begin to try to explain a highway that runs 190 miles east to west and has very little to nothing in between! This Idaho Highway is called US 12, Lewis and Clark Trail and the Nez Perce Trail. This is one truly amazing road that is nothing but wilderness all around, it cuts threw the largest track of wilderness in the lower 48! It remains just as The Nez Perce Indians used it to trade and travel to visit other tribes. It remains Just as it was when Lewis and Clark searched for a way to the Pacific Ocean in 1805. My words and photos will not do it justice, you will have to travel it someday to see for yourself!
Link: https://magicvalley.com/news/local/u-s-highway-idaho-s-long-and-winding-road/article_7d5cf67c-70e8-5dd3-b7fb-b0e47786c417.html

Geni and I spent 2 weeks traveling this road with no gas stations, no cell service and very few people. Forest service road 500 parallels the paved highway and runs on top of the Mountain ridge lines, it is dirt and is the original path of Lewis and Clark. Geni and I stuck to the paved road this time maybe next time we will be bold and really get lost.

Our trip starts in Orofino Idaho where we spent a few beautiful days along the Clearwater river picking fresh black berries, and picked up Highway 12 heading East (The wrong way, Lewis and Clark traveled East to West). We took a small detour and headed up highway 11( The Goldrush Hyw) North to the very small town of Weippe Idaho (population 402!). You can pick up Forest road 500 up here if you wish. The town of Weippe has a lot of history, it was where the Lewis and Clark party found itself starving and cold in September of 1805 and the Nez Perce Indians took them in and fed them and gave them fresh horses. It was also the first area that gold was discovered in Idaho in 1860.
Link: http://www.clearwatermuseum.org/our-history/lewis-clark.html