Best Western Adventures

Series 12

RAINBOWS AND BUTTERFLIES

"It can't always be rainbows and butterflies," he says
"But can't it sometimes be?", my reply

Our unending chorus

This day, a couples adventure
Destination: At the End of the Rainbow
A geocache at another mining area
It's lunchtime at the hay fields
Suicidal butterflies dive in droves
Flinging themselves
Head first into the front of car
Drive past Wild Plum Winery
Down highway
Past swathers at rest
Bales of hay dotting fields
Along shores of Goose Lake
To the Davis Creek Store
Hmm, been here before
Many times this week
To get useless map and permit
Backtrack along Goose Lake
Past tractors and grass fed cows
To dirt highway to mines
Pass campground
Forest Service truck
Miles up old dirt roads
Twists and turns
Up the mountain
Bumpy, rocky roads
Littered with obsidian
Sharp gleaming black shards
Falling logs, danger
Elusive Rainbow Mines
Elusive wooden signs
No road is the right road
We can't make it, find our way
Series of dead ends and roadblocks
We give up, head back down
Can't get there from here,
Not with the sun in our eyes
Hunger in our bellies
Back down dirt highway
Flying down blacktop
With so many suicidal butterflies
Hitting the dash
Carelessly careening
Headlong into their demise