Mystery Trip
This last winter at the RV Park in Lo De Marcos our neighbors, Gille and Diane (French Canadians) introduced us to the term and fun of Mystery Tours, organized for anyone who wanted to tag along. They would come up with a destination that usually required four wheel drive vehicles and off they would go for the day. Some of the trips were exciting to say the least and not something you would do alone with just one vehicle. I blogged about the ones Kathleen and I participated in.
Not wanting to steal Gille and Diane's term I will call our state side adventures, Mystery Trips. Last evening six of us got together and went on a trip organized by Bill and Margaret. Marvin, Ethel, Kathleen and I piled in the van and off we went. The vehicle is Charlie's personal transportation and will eventually be used to take campers staying at the 'Toutle River RV Resort' on organized tours.
The initial purpose of this trip was for Bill to show me where friends of his from the area are catching Salmon. We followed the Cowlitz River for quite a distance pulled up at the first dam that slowed down any Salmon headed for their spawning grounds. There were several fisherman trying their luck and we got to visit with a young handicapped fellow who was fishing from a wheel chair and had access right to the waters edge. He had caught a couple of fish this season from this spot, but had no luck today.
From our visit to the Cowlitz River we continued on to the town of Morton which is where Bill and Margaret lived and raised a family. Morton is located on Hi way 12 just West of the uphill climb in to the Cascade Mountains. We left Morton in a driving rain storm and all of us hoped that our RV Park was getting some of the moisture, (It didn't). We stopped on the way back to see a piece of property that Bill and Margaret are developing a short distance inland from exit 59 off Interstate 5 and then returned to the exit and a mom and pop drive-in for burgers and strawberry shakes.
It was a fun trip with new friends and we hope to plan more as time will allow.
