The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42549   Message #623106
Posted By: Deckman
07-Jan-02 - 10:53 PM
Thread Name: Ballad of the Merry Ferry -songs of the Northwest
Subject: RE: Ballad of the Merry Ferry (Pacific NW)
Mark ... I brought up your posting of a couple of years ago regarding the ex coach who now drives bus on the "Jimmy-Come-Lately-Road. Sorry I can't help you with the particuliars of that song, but this might help: to get to "Jimmy-Come-Lately-Road, go EXACTLY 1.2 miles past the sign that says "Gairdner." Turn left at the D.O.T. sand dump and hang on. You go uphill and wind around for about 3 miles, then you start down, and I do mean DOWN. It's a one way suicide run. At the top of the hill, with all the single lane switchbacks, you blow your horn three times. Then you get out of your rig and listen for five minutes. If no one blows their horn back, you go for it! Down you go. If you meet another rig coming up, all you can do is slow down as much as possible and then jump ... true! I have fished steelhead on the Dungeness River below this spot, and you wouldn't believe the number of broken and rusted rigs laying down there. I have always found bears there looking for a meal ... true. I better get off here before Maggie accuses me of a thread creep ... or just being a creep! CHEERS, Bob