Mary Lyons goes way back to my days of teaching in the inner city of Seattle. She and Pat Cruver were part of that forged friendships coming out of that institution of learning. Since Mary lived on the way home to La Conner, we threw in together for a short road trip up the Columbia Gorge for a last fling of freedom before the anchor went down for good in the homeport.
Even though I had been in the gorge just the week before on my to Portland, going back to the region caused no worries. Repeating an area just provides for another view. With Mary in the navigation seat we headed upstream to Memaloose State Park on the Oregon side of the river. What a find! Because the season was late, there were only a few spots taken so we got a choice view location. Fall was in full swing with the trees going through a spectrum of color change. The river was attracting salmon fisherpersons in mass. The air was clean and fresh.
We did have one problem, though. The last presidential debate was to happen and we didn’t have a TV set onboard so we scooted down Interstate 84 for that liberal town of Hood River, which has a lock on the world’s best wind surfing. After a few inquires of the locals, we found ourselves among like believers in the watering hole called Horsefeathers. Every screen had the debates on it and crowd participation was encouraged. Mary said, “He’s going to win!” Then gasped, “That’s the first time I’ve said that out loud!!” Yes, a revolution is coming on November 4th. I am so proud of our country that we can have a change in government without a military upheaval.
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