Day Five The Support Team Arrives

To continue on in the ‘western’ theme…….. the hero arrives to save (assist) the ladies.  We aren’t quite sure how Mike did it but he arrived to rescue us from Little Creek Casino Resort at noon.  He first looked through the casino thinking we were at the slots but we were just checking out. We loaded up the van (back to looking like gypsies) and headed back to Tacoma where we had sussed out an REI store.

 First and most important thing we bought was a tent.  Mike then got Lee to a drop in clinic where a biking doctor looked at her ankles and told her that she had severe tendonitis and gave her a lot of advice on how to improve the situation (we all know what it is!) I was relieved to hear that the bionic creaking experience was simply clepitus, a common symptom of Achilles Tendonitis. Meanwhile, Merryl lost herself in a discount book store. After helping the economy of South Tacoma we headed west to a little town of Montesano, which had a state park on Lake Sylvia (known to the community as Lake Saliva). We were entertained by the ospreys, eagles and geese that cruised up and down the lake.