October 26, 2004

October 26, 2004

Trout Lodge

DAY 131

 

Today was a rainy, lazy day. It was our "day off". We slept late, waking to a warm, humid morning. Stepping outside of the trailer was like stepping into a sauna. We awoke too late to drive to Trout Lodge for breakfast. I did some minor maintenance work on the truck.

We met Sara at lunch. She is the only Canadian on staff here. She's from St. John, New Brunswick. She was recruited last spring right out of school when she graduated with her Master's degree in Outdoor Recreation / Education. She is in charge of the "high ropes" adventure courses here. Sort of an Outward Bound kind of program. Team building, self confidence building, overcoming your fears, etc.. As we meet more and more of the staff here, we realize that many of them have very specialized educations in outdoor recreation, outdoor education, that sort of thing.

This afternoon I blew off, reading the newspaper and napping with the cats. Hey ... I worked yesterday ! I slept through the thunderstorm and brief power outage.

At supper, first we chatted with Lunny about baseball, then with John, the Elderhostel Co-ordinator. He has an Elderhostel group here this week on a murder mystery theme week. We chatted with John about RV Workamping, Elderhostel programs, and St. Louis, which is his home. Tonight is game 3 of the World Series, with St. Louis playing Boston. Everybody here this week is infected with baseball fever, even Lunny from Australia.

Found out that the proper pronunciations are ; St. Lewis, Mizzoora.

DSK