Summer of 19 - #28 -Sasquatch Museum, Planning our Escape

Friday October 4th, 2019
I took a couple of pictures from inside Lily of our views.
The hill in front doesn't look too bad in this picture, but it is quite steep!!

The site opposite us, you can just see the lake through the trees if you look closely.

We drove around the campground before going out today.  I only took two pictures, as that was really all there was to take.  The boat launch area was the only place you could see the lake clearly.

Boat Launch

View from the boat launch

We really are missing the last campground!!! 😔

We went to visit Expedition Bigfoot-The Sasquatch Museum.  I found this by doing a search on Google Maps, for Things to Do near where we were staying.  It was the only place we saw it advertised.  I usually do a search on TripAdvisor to find things to do, but I'm glad I've found this way as well as you can see how far places are on the map.

There were a lot of things to look at, and read and listen to.

Maps showing where investigations had been held.

Video presentation in the research/lab area

Sasquatch "turd"!!

Research Desk

Cast of a foot

Model of a cabin, there was a story related to it but I don't know what it was!!

Bigfoot Research & Tech Vehicle

Here's a LINK to the story of the encounter where the rifle shown below was used.

Rifle used on ApeMan of Kelso in 1924

You can listen to recordings of Bigfoot.

Yeti Scalp!!!

The story of the Pangboche Hand is in this LINK.

A finger from the hand was supposedly smuggled out of Nepal by hiding it in actor, Jimmy Stewart's wife's lingerie bag.  DNA testing found that it contained human DNA markers.

Mask made by special effects for a movie.

We saw this old car sitting out in front of an antique store next door to the Bigfoot museum.

All that research into Bigfoot made us hungry, so we stopped at a Mexican restaurant for lunch/dinner.  

I had Cheese Enchiladas(as usual), they were not as good as I have had at other places though.  On the other hand, Bryan had Carne Asada, which he said was exceptional!!!!  

We headed toward home and this is what showed on Bitchin' Betty when we put our "home" address in.  We were heading for Plum Nelly Road. Now, you might think, "so what?" Bryan did!!!!
Here's the story........Plum was my mum's maiden name. The wife of my grandparents best friends, that also lived next door to them, was called Nellie.  This lady also made my first two wedding dresses for me.  Shame they must have been jinxed, but suffice to say she didn't make my dress when I married Bryan.  However, my Nanny Plum and "Aunt" Nellie were important women in my life, and I just felt it was fate that we were going down this road.

Then we found a campground on the road, well, well, well. If I had seen that in my research we would probably have stayed there!!!

Before returning home, we went on an investigative trip to see where we could hook up the car(Tilly) to Lily after we left the campground. The hills are so steep, and there are tight curves on the road out of the campground to the main road. We didn't want to add the weight of the car to the motorhome, for her to have to pull up the hills as well.  She will probably struggle enough on her own!!!

We didn't have much luck finding anywhere for a few miles. I will look at Google Maps and see if I can plan an escape route with somewhere to hitch up Tilly to Lily!!!!  Otherwise I may be driving the car all the way to the next campground, instead of us towing her.
I saw a deer by the roadside, but by the time I got my camera and Bryan took this picture she had hidden behind the bush on the right.  Her face is peering out on the left side, but you can't see it in this picture, shucks!!!  It was a nice end to the day.

Saturday October 5th, 2019
I looked on Google Maps and found a possible place to be able to hook up the car to the motorhome.  It was 6 miles down the road but would be better than driving the 50 miles.  We went to have a look and see if it would work.  It was a gas station with a truck parking area behind it.  Just before we got there we found another area by the side of the road that would work as well.  We have decided to use that if no-one is parked there as a first option and then if not the gas station would be the second option.  The problem with either is if the places are full with others parking there, but with two options we think one should work.  Keep your fingers crossed for us.

Sunday October 6th, 2019
We stayed in.  Bryan watched Football and Nascar, and I cleaned up my laptop, as the storage space on my internal hard drive was almost full.  I saved my photos onto a separate hard drive and that opened up a lot of space on my laptop.  I will go to bed early tonight as Andy Murray is playing in China again, and his match should start at 6.30am tomorrow morning.
Stay tuned as we are moving again tomorrow, hopefully we can get up the hills, and stop and get Tilly attached to Lily.  Stay tuned.....