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Bonners Ferry, Idaho is one of my favorite places in the whole world, if not thefavorite. I love staying at the Kootenai River Inn where all the rooms have a beautiful close-up view of the river and there's a decent restaurant.The Sunday brunch is wonderful. You can watch the Kootenai River flow by from the floor-to-ceiling windows. Also the whole valley is drop-dead gorgeous. It is so pristine still. The most serene sweep of wide, green river valley you can imagine, edged by magnificent, wilderness mountains.
And the people have not yet been tainted with the big city, 21st-century mistrust of strangers. They are friendly in a old-fashioned American way I remember from my childhood.
For some reason, one night while we were staying at the inn, many people from town were swimming in the pool. The kids were playing a game of swimming in a circle and as my 11-year-old son and I approached the pool they all shouted at us to join the game. “Come on, it’s fun,” they said. And so we jumped in (I walked down the steps) and swam around and around with everyone and laughed our heads off. We had a wonderful time. I've never in my life experienced people so friendly to outsiders. Another hotel guest child stubbed her toe and several town mothers got out of the pool to help and console her.
The town has been voted the friendliest town in Idaho, and, although I have lived in and experienced many friendly towns in Idaho, I do think they deserve the award of friendliest.
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