Hi All the saga continues,
When we arrived in Sonora/Jamestown area My nickname was permanently
changed. This is where I became the leader. Too bad I didn't plan the trip
because I didn't know the route. We continued on up rt. 49 for about a
hour to find the Mokelumne pro nounced 'mo-call-la-me'. Where we turned off
to go Panning. "There's gold in them there hills." This is where we all
are to get a case of gold fever. Boy we panned that river dry. The water
was sooooo cold my eyes started to freeze. It was a lot of fun. I got a
whopping single flake out of a half hour of work in freezing cold water. I
was rich, yeah right.
We continued on for a couple of hours or a couple of wrong turns which ever
you like to call it. I average about one bad turn an hour. Arrived at
Placerville where I promptly got us lost and turned into a little side
park. It took us almost an hour to get all the cars back out of the park,
traffic just wouldn't let us out.
We finally found our hotels, and checked in. It was a nice clean, cheep
hotel. Crashes even came with a free can of bug spray to keep him company
through the night. Mine I had to put up with the roaches playing cards all
night. Every time they shuffled the deck it woke me up.
To make matters worse when we got back from our barbecue we were in formed
by the desk clerk that we had no cold water. So we couldn't flush. But
that's all right at least we didn't have to take a cold shower like some of
our group had to in the morning..
We continued on up to Pat and Amy's house for the Barbecue. Had a great
dinner, thanks Amy, where we laughed for hours about various wrong turn
excursions. What can I say I like the unknown road. We left and since
nobody would take over the lead, it was dark, I elected my self to get
everyone lost. Well I believe I tied Crashes world record. How about a
half of block before I made my first wrong turn, turn left, okay right
turn. To top it all off I missed the freeway exit to our hotel. What a
perfect way to end a perfect trip. 8~}
Still smiling can't wipe the silly grin off my face
Wrong way Rickie Going to work.
Rick
Carolyn/Rick wrote:
> Hi Spridgeteers,
>
> I know SWAG Means something else, But some how I guess it kind of fits
> this group. It actually means Spridget Wild Adventure Group. We were
> just mistaken all those years, or is that the way we find our
> destination. I'm not sure any more.
>
> Early reports are that a new world record has occurred. Yep, you
> guessed it. Some one who will remain nameless, but wasn't me, has lost
> half the entire tour group before leaving Mariposa. That was the town
> we met in to start the journey up Rt. 49. It was about 2 miles and they
> were gone. Half the group disappeared of the face of the Earth. Does
> this sound like a bermuda triangle type event or what. Now I can
> understand loosing half a group in a town like Merced, or even
> Sacramento, But this town is so small it doesn't even have a stop
> light. How in world can we loose half the members.
>
> Any ways, after much confusion many laughs, and one member's trip to
> Yosemite we managed to regroup. Wow, think how the rest of the tour
> went if this is the way we started.
>
> Now for my problem, You see I've always had this thing for authority.
> You know, if my boss tells me to do something one way I have to prove it
> can be done another way. Even if it Takes twice as long, I am
> determined to do it. So when the leader tells me to turn left,
> Straight looks good to me and off we went. This didn't work to well.
> Right turn ahead yep it sure was "turn left". Maybe my car was trying
> to tell me something, it kept wanting to go home. In fact, that's why I
> think it made half them turns. You didn't think I would make all those
> mistakes did You? I blame it on Puddles, Honest.
>
> We continued up the road after a two hour regrouping to Coulterville.
> Where we invaded the local restaurant and were promptly told that we
> would have to wait an hour almost to be seated. There was four empty
> tables across the room that I could see. Personally, I believe she was
> real smart, and realized that they could not handle a group of this size
> in this town of 120 people. We had to invade a sandwich shop across the
> only street. It was a one women shop. You know the kind, Chief cook
> and bottle washer here. Hey, she did wonderful for one person. No
> complaints, no problems, She worked as fast as she could. We ate one
> couple at a time. She could only prepare one order at once because here
> grill only held two hamburger patty's at a time. Now that's a small
> time town. 8~}
>
> With crash in the lead we took off again. Burning up them curves.
> Great fun, the Sprite in fact were out in front the whole way and we
> kind off left everyone except the Po*che because well we were really
> moving good around the corners. On a corner we passed a Nissan that
> was in front and obviously terrified of the curves due to the fact that
> she slowed down to 20 on a 40 MPH curve. I guess we must startled him,
> as both Crash on one corner and Me on the next followed by the Po*che,
> driven by Larry & Sandy, blew by them. The Nissan pulled over at the
> next pull out that they had been ignoring until then to let the rest of
> us by. When the rest of the group went by I understand he had a
> startled look and was shaking his head when everyone else past. Oops
> Sorry, it was safe we could see a long ways off but the lines were a
> little solid.
>
> As a result of this last trip a few nick names have been changed.
>
> Signing off
>
> Wrong way Rick,
> And proud of it.
> .
> BTW this is an early report, and I will continue tomorrow on the hotel,
> few more wrong turns, dinner (Great Dinner). Thanks Amy.
>
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52 MGTD,Sparky 74 MGB, B-tris 76 XJ12 Coupe, Jacque
60 Bugeye, Puddles 58 MGA Coupe, Ruby
http://www.softcom.net/users/walters
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