Hey folks, my fiance and I rode out to Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday outta Wisconsin. We were checking the progression of spring, and wanted to go for a ride. Saturday morning we looked around southern Iowa and conditions were not great. So we looked in the old McNally atlas and saw Thousand Hills state park was in northern Missouri and thought we would check it out. As we drove farther south out of Iowa, everything was becoming more green and lots of blooming going on. Was looking good. We arrived at Thousand Hills early afternoon, and when we turned left on the park road near the north shore of the lake, who do we see? Well, no other than Chris Matherly and members of his foray. Anyway, at that lot, there is a southern facing slope, and the Matherly people were still mustering and arriving so we parked 5 cars away, walked down to the next pavilion and headed up the slope. After about 3 minutes at the top, my fiance was like, "Oh my god, look!" No shit, she found the first blonde, and in 10 minutes we had 16 blondes and greys. Strangely, they were under a big oak. So, we wanted to see more of the park and drove around. Matherly was no where in sight. We ended up walking a trail on the west side of the park, found nothing and then rolled in Saturday afternoons thunderstorm. We ran back to the car and driving around the one way road we saw Matherly and the foray party wrapping it up where they started due to the thunderstorm. Anyway, we just ate those northeast Missouri morels in Northeast Wisconsin. Delicious! By the way, you guys there in Missouri have a beautiful state. I'd love to go back to morel hunt or camp in the future, if you guys don't shoo me out, lol! Just thought you all might find this spontaneous jaunt interesting. Later.
