Chery's Little Misadventure

WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT FROM CAMP WEBEGONE

High: 76.5
Low: 42.0
Wind: 1.6 - 5.4
Rain: 0"
Humidity: 35%-82%

NEWS FROM CAMP WEBEGONE

It all started because the pit toilet is waaay faaar away from our campsite, and I don't like walking over there at night.

So, what to do at night? It was a dilemma that I figured could simply be solved by purchasing a bucket, a night pee bucket. Now, I'm a bit cheap frugal when it comes to spending money. I was willing spend a dollar at Dollar Tree for a bucket, and the Dollar Tree is about a 45 minute drive to Medford.

A 45 minute drive to purchase an item that costs a dollar is not cost savings, so I prepared a shopping list of items to purchase at Fred Meyer and Dollar Tree. It was Senior Tuesday at Fred Meyer after all. I planned a lunch break at Starbucks and hoped to post the first blog there. Life was going good. The F150 truck is easy to drive.

And then I reached a tee in the road on the way home. There's no tee on the way home. Which was when I realized I was not on Hwy 62 anymore. Oops! Big oops! I have no idea where I am or how I managed to get there, and I had been driving for 1 ½ hours. Oh boy, that's 1 ½ hours back to Medford and 1 ½ hours to get back to camp. That puts me arriving back at camp about 8PM, a bit past dinner time.

At last, I find out that I am traveling on Hwy 140. (By the way, Hwy 62 and Hwy 140 are not marked when you are traveling east, the direction I was traveling.) I pull to the side of the road and, lo and behold, I have cell phone service!

I call my son, Aaron, and say, “I'm lost.” Second time this year he has navigated me to my destination. Long story short, Aaron told me where I was, and gave me three possible shorter routes to get back to camp without going all the way back to Medford. All in all, I felt the universe had my back. I had cell phone service, there was a rest area for a desperate pit stop and at Fred Meyer I had purchased one of those cell phone chargers for your vehicle that you plug into the cigarette lighter. Fortunately, because I had a very low battery. I arrived back at Camp Webegone about two minutes before Rich was going to call out the cavalry.

You know, it was a nice day for a drive with plenty of time to reflect on life, the universe and everything. (Three hours of time, to be exact)

Cheryl