Hiking Trip? FAIL!

It's been a while since mom and I have gone out...the leaves are turning, it's nice and cool, let's go for a hike like Shawnee and her mom! What could go wrong?

Well, mom got on the puter and looked up for somewhere for us to go. She wanted to go hiking and there's not a lot of hiking close by--but then she discovered Wegofka--the state's best hidden treasure state park. Should have been clue number ONE that this would be bad...the words "best" and "hidden" together are NOT good.

So we load up, with some very simple directions for about a 45 min drive. It starts off easy, a right here, a right there and then it goes downhill. We can't find the road the park is off of. We drive all the way through waaaaay past where it should be for like an extra hour. We're on some scary county road, mom is getting frustrated and the road is really bumpy and curvy. Clue number TWO that this won't be a good trip--I toss my cookies.

The road was so curvy and bumpy so I puked in the back of the SUV. There was no where for mom to pull off cause of the county-roadness so I gave her "EWWW MOM! There's PUKE back here!" look in the rearview mirror. Finally we find a place to pull over and let me tell you, when I toss cookies, I toss cookies. All that morning's breakfast of turkey heart, egg and tripe, yeah it was good at the time, not so much now.

Mom gets most of it out and puts me in the backseat. By now she's muttering something like "damn it, I'm not having dog puke in my car and NOT finding this damn place!"

Finally, with help of her phone we find what we think is the road. It's a dirt road. And it goes up a mountain. So here we go! Then mom notices these signs...hmm...not very state park like and what I consider clue number THREE this isn't going to be a fun hike:



But we keep going, make it to the top of the mountain, see the tower thing that's supposed to give you great views and it has a big "No Trespassing" sign. Mom says screw it. I don't argue, we go up. We then see peoples and trucks and stuff up there...mom fearing a "The Hills Have Eyes" incident says let's go back down. But while there, we did get some great pics!

We did a little "rock climbing"

Posin' on a rock! It's just like Lion King!

I smelled lots of deer poop...here I am looking for deers

This is the tower thingy...we ran from it

Did get some great views though!!

When we got home, mom looked it up and that tower thing was in the state park, so we did make it. Mom said we're never going back though. We'll get some real hiking and trails in during Feb. when we go to North George-Ah for vacation. Sweet!