• It's a modest 10-14 day tour.  If I'm lucky, it could extend to three weeks.
• It's an oblong loop tour that includes four of the most revered cities in all of cycle-dom.  (Spokane, Lewiston, Coeur d' Alene and Sand Point, obviously.)
• It's a "religious" pilgrimage of questionable piety and sincerity.  All references to holiness, godliness and reverence should be considered in the context of the rather secular religion I invented eight years ago--The Church of the Great Outdoors.
• It's an agricultural tour, desert tour, mountain tour, National Forest tour, and urban tour all wrapped up into one 450-mile package.
• It's a lo-tech tour and a paper map tour.
• It's a camping tour and it's a motel tour.  I like a healthy mix of sleeping in a tent and sleeping indoors.  Both have their pluses and minuses.  A little hardy adventure and a little cushy comfort can be equally good for the soul.  And the tent is ESPECIALLY good for the soul when all the indoor accommodations have a sign out front that reads, "NO VACANCY."

• It's not the tour I've been looking forward to for nearly two years, but it'll have to do for now.  You can see the latest developments on my oft-postponed Tex-New Mex Tour here:  https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/ersatzcowboy/facing-reality-four-months-after-the-fourteen-months-later-post/ 
• It's a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants tour.  The idea was conceived a week ago when I wedged open a small window of free time within this summer full of weddings and family obligations, but I didn't come up with a route until yesterday.  Ready or not,  I hope to leave one week from today.
• I fear it might be my only tour this year.

The Holy Quadrinity of cycling cities stands out on the map.  Between them are the wheat farms of the Palouse, the canyon of the Snake River, the mountains and forests of the Idaho panhandle, and two beautiful lakes named "Heart of an Awl" and "Hangs From Ears."

I cannot even believe the Adventure Cycling Association hasn't already mapped out this route.  They could have called it "The Holy Land of Bike Touring" route.  I guess I beat them to the punch.