TWO BROADS AND A JEEP #6

Well we started off the day with a bang..literally.We packed up the jeep, smiled at the neighbour sitting out in front of his unit sipping coffee, climbed in, reversed out of the parking spot and BANG!!!  I backed right smack into a tree.  "Didn't you look?' Cookie asks.  Clearly not. I did but I didn't see it for whatever reason.  It was a pretty hard hit.  But due to people watching, we just casually said, " its a jeep...its supposed to be beat up" and drove away.  Later when we checked it there wasn't a dint....on the tire that is mounted on the back.  Thank god it wasn't a vehicle.

We decided to stay off the I-5 and take the secondary road, route 99.  It was so much more relaxing and we saw things.  A beautiful river...the Umpqua, covered bridges, an almost kind of homeless dude in a park who was super talkative and gave us lots of info.  He could have been a tour guide.  His name was Raymond.  We talked with him for quite a while actually.

We went through a number of little towns that were very iffy and rundown and dogpatchy.  In the midst of one of them we sailed past a quilt shop out in the middle of nowhere.  So we screeched to a halt, turned around and went back.

It was the best quilt shop.  All her material was interesting and amazing and not the run of the mill.  I used her bathroom and Cookie shopped.  Loved it!  A real find.

Somewhere along the way we were travelling beside the river and there was a pull off to take a look.  It was absolutely stunning.  I put a couple pics of it below.  Things you see when you aren't flying along the freeway.

And now, here we are in a room that, to me, is way worse than last night.  Cookie doesn't think so, even though I am looking at her footprint on the wall on a squashed spider.

  The place is just odd, micky moused together, and missing things.  There is a coffee pot but no coffee or trimmings.  There are just two thread bare towels.  The bathroom door doesn't shut.  Neither of us wanted to place our luggage on the icky carpeted floor.  And get this.  Cookie, being kind of anal I thought, started to take the bed apart to check the sheets to see if they were clean, not something I have ever done and I have been in at least a million hotels, and I started to give her the gears about it.  And then guess what?  She found two huge stains...one on the top sheet and a matching one on the bottom sheet!  Seriously?  I couldn't

THE FIRST COVERED BRIDGE

OUT OF ORDER....THE ROOM TONIGHT

UMPQUA RIVER

TWO TONED RIVER

WE THINK THAT MIGHT BE A HOLLY TREE

STUPID PICS TOTALLY MIXED UP...WHY?

DEAD HUMMING BIRD....OKAY WITH ME...I DON'T LIKE THEM....MEAN LITTLE BLIGHTERS

THE LOVELY RAYMOND...HE WAS SO COOL

BACK TO THE ROOM...HORRIBLE CURTAINS

COOKIE'S SHEETS...HAHAHAHA

believe it!

She went and got the lady hotel keeper and made her come and change the sheets.  This place is dirty, and a dump in my estimation.  We have decided to stay in a nice place tomorrow night.  We may be in Portland so that shouldn't be too hard.

Well its off to bed.  Cookie gets up at the crack of dawn.  (hee hee hee...she will be reading this.)  Then these two old broads will be hitting the pavement, heading north.  TTYL