A Right Wrong Turn

Rick heard sometime during the week that the fall colors in the North Cascades were showing well recently so we chose to do that drive yesterday. We managed to get up and out a little earlier than we usually do on Saturdays, we have a tendency to veg in front of our 'puters til noon or so.

I took my Watchtower and studied it in the car as I do. Then I started some practice crocheting. We made it to Everett in no time.

We turned east at Arlington and headed toward Darrington. Along the way we were already seeing some interesting clouds mixed in with the trees in the lower hills. The fields are all much greener than usual, due to the rainy late summer we've had.

We turned off the main drag and headed toward a river that I could see to the north on a road called Fortson Mill Rd. It wasn't long and led to an old paper mill with the dam and mill pond still flowing.

We continued on to Darrington and came to a fork in the road. We followed the sign that pointed toward the "Mountain Loop Hwy". After not too long we found ourselves on a very nicely maintained dirt highway. With the rain it was a nicely maintained mud highway. But, needless to say, it had some nice views along the way.

We continued on and finally got back on pavement. By that time Rick said he was hungry so we were looking forward to getting to Rockport and having some lunch. It was to be 10 miles from Darrington so it should be any minute.

We drove on, past tiny towns, one named Silverton, then Verlot, then another area called Robe. Where is Rockport?

We decided something was screwy but kept on. I couldn't find any of these towns on the map, it only showed Darrington, then Rockport 19 miles away. Finally ... we hit a town - Granite Falls!?!?!

That's like way south and west of where we were headed! Oh look! on the map! there's Silverton and Verlot! We turned right in Darrington and should have gone left!

So we found a Subway, ate and drove around the Everett Boeing before heading homeward. A camera-bag-research trip to Fry's and we were done.

Not the day we had planned but fun nonetheless.

Are we that old?