Saturday July 30

Riverbend RV Park 

Twisp, WA

9AM

Local landmark in downtown Twisp.

We had seem a reference to a guy that travels around Washington, collects rocks, and comes to the Twisp Town Market Day every Saturday.  It's Saturday 😉.

First we stop at the Cinnamon Twisp Bakery for breakfast.

At the Market Day we meet Mike Melton, the rock guy. A fountain of knowledge about absolutely no organized thoughts. He was so excited to share locations that he'd move on to another location before finishing the last. At times I tried to slow him down. He'd stop for a breath and immediately launch into more locations.

His directions also required local historical knowledge like the last after the old bridge that got washed out near Aunt Sue's 🤪.

We decided we had enough info and headed.

We both remember one place off Rt97 so we went back over Okanogan Pass and follow what we'd remembered of this directions. The next 80 miles we spent on US National Forest fire roads, Indian Reservations and just wandering with occasional Google maps. At one point we passed a sign to a town and maps concurred. It wasn't as finished a road as the one we were on but a sign and google...45 minutes later we came to a washout. Yup the road was gone! 

We spent some time collecting rocks in the stream then backtracked. We eventually emerged from the forest and headed back to Twisp.

But we passed the 12 Tribes Casino and decided, given that we had spent a good part of the day using reservation fire roads, we'd stop and make a small donation 🤣🤣.