….Coeur d’Alene, the small city curled against a lake 25 miles long in the evergreen mountains of North Idaho, has plenty of heart. Lake Coeur d’Alene and its hundreds of pleasure boats so dwarf everything else in town that it can’t help but feel like year-round vacation; pity the poor college students who study just feet from lakeshore picnic tables and rope swings. read the full story >>