We got off at the Castle Rock exit and headed towards the mountain. Just after the town of Toutle Lake, we stopped at the giant Sasquatch just off the side of the road. I went into the gift shop and the lady saw my Cougar sweatshirt. "You're a Cougar too? So is my husband. Go Cougs!" We chatted a little bit while Jon found a few more caches. I really didn't know much about caching and I thought he would teach me more than he did...or include me in some of the ones he was doing.
We were on our way up Hwy 504. As it got steeper and steeper and just before the bend, his vehicle started smoking. Uh oh, not a good sign, we pulled over. We got out and inspected it. I suggested that it might have been the transmission. A while later, we decided that we should go back down the hill towards the nearest visitor's center, we passed a few miles back.
We coasted down the hill to Hoffstadt Bluff rest area/visitor's center. There, we ate the lunch we brought with us, Jon called his dad and we spent the next six hours talking and walking around the visitor's center.
It was going to be a while until his dad could come with the trailer to get his vehicle so he called his friend to come and get us. We crammed ourselves into his friend's tiny pick up truck and they drove me back to my car at the rest stop off Mullen. He constatnly told me sorry that our trip didn't work out the way he planned it. I told him, it happens and nothing we could do about it except figure it out the best we could.
He and his dad went back for his car later on that day.
It was an interesting day and I am glad I had the opportunity to meet Jon, if I didn't I probably wouldn't be geocaching.
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