Saturday, March 12, 2011

Don't go chasing waterfalls, (ha ha now you can't get that song out of your head!)

So this is how most of our Random Roulette Road Trips take place. Yesterday, we get in the car, with the camera gear because we have a rule if you put shoes on the cameras come with. That's because we have missed so many moments in life because we didn't have a camera, but I digress... So we start down the 205 and after about 45 minutes we see an exit that says Mt. Angel. So we pull out the phone and do a quick google and find that Mt. Angel is a town that has a bunch of Octoberfest things and even has a place that makes sausage. They had a little restaurant at the location where they make the sausage so we stopped for lunch. Well the folks there were nicer than any folks we had met before but the building while nostalgic was filthy. Anyone that knows me knows germs and I don't get along.... Anyhow we ordered and the knockwurst and bratwurst wasn't bad. The funny thing is you know when you are in a place that sells primarily beer when you ask what soda they have and they don't know! "We might have RC cola, but I'll check". They did have shoestring beer battered fries which for those of you that ate at the "original" Iggy's in Salt Lake back before it got bought out and ruined, you would have enjoyed these as they were just like the old Iggy's fries. So when we got done with lunch we drove down the road and saw signs for Silver Falls State Park. So 20 miles later we got to a parking lot and despite the pouring rain we visited three beautiful waterfalls. The park has tons more falls but we were already soaking wet and the sun was getting low in the sky, LOL, sun, as if we've even seen the sun in the last 4 months! This is how we do weekends, pick a direction, start driving, find what ever we can find. Random Roulette Road Trip.









1 comment:

Marci said...

Wow! Beautiful! I can't imagine what it would be like to just jump in the car and head a direction and find beautiful things like you guys do. Some people say that the desert is beautiful but, not like that!