All those places you’ve driven past and not stopped

Add Brietenbush retreat center and the spot where the Metolius river bursts forth from the hillside. I know I saw the river as a kid, but never did go up the road from Hwy 20 to Brietenbush. We couldn’t even walk around the grounds today, because they were so full. Yes you can drive from Airport Way to Estacada to Sisters on back roads. It has been beautiful. Sun and rain and big old ponderosa pines. Saw the B&B complex fire interpretive station — man that was a huge fire. Then tonight walking back from dinner in Sisters, the N. Sister summit was visible with a blanket of clouds all around like a kid with a comforter. Good to get out of the narrow confines of church, work, home, and see some new country.