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16 www.DesertMessenger.com May 16, 2018 By Jackie Deal TRAVEL #4 Glide, Oregon is not a city, it's not a town. According to the IRS it's a "census designated area". Now isn't that enough to defl ate the "Founding Fathers" and raise the ire of the "Ladies' Garden So- ciety"? Anyway, Glide, Oregon is noted for at least two things: its annual Wildlife Flower Show and the Colliding Rivers. The 30-or-so mile drive along the North Shore of the Umpqua River is beautiful, twisting, turning, climbing and descending. It was a gorgeous sunny day, all the colors of the pallet in profuse display. At fi rst. Then it poured, it didn't just rain, the heavens opened and the gods poured out their tears on us below. Fortunately the Wildfl ower Show is held indoors. The large room was over- fl owing with vases, jars, boxes, containers of wildfl owers (and some that looked like weeds.) I did recognize the blue Camus fl owers. I've read that early pioneers coming over the mountain on horseback looked out at the val- ley below covered with bright blue fl owers and they fell in love with it. And so we have a valley named Camus Valley. The rain calmed down a bit and we went to view the colliding rivers. This is claimed to be "the only place in the world where two rivers hit head on". The Little River fl ows from the South and the North Umpqua makes a sharp bend and in the process collides head-on with the Little River. At high water it's a fi erce confrontation. This time of year it's simply a swirl of white wa- ter and the North Umpqua goes go its way to join the main Umpqua River and eventually pours into the ocean. For the uninitiated, it's pronounced Ump-quwah with the accent on Ump. We dearly love to hear national TV announcers call it the "Oomp-quah". Yah, I know, try to get a Northerner to pronounce "Saguaro"- I couldn't even get my spell check to recognize it until I asked for the Arizona cactus "that holds its arms up in the air." That's what it took to get it! While we're working on pronuncia- tion, try to pronounce "Willamette". (It's a river in Oregon and a fre- quently used place name.) We were camping several years ago when a man came up to my friend's husband waving his checkbook. He said, "I've lost my credit card and wallet but fortunately I have my check book. Could I write you a check and would you give me cash for it? It's on my local bank, the Will-a-met'-tee." I grabbed my friend by the arm and I whispered "Can you pronounce the name of your local bank? Well, this guy can't. It's "Will-a' met" not " Will a met'-tee." She quickly dis- suaded her husband from handing over the cash. Travelogue Reminds you of all the scams fl oat- ing around, doesn't it? I got a call last week from a very gruff-voiced male who said, "The IRS has a warrant out for your arrest!" I must have been in a bad mood because I said "Well, La-Di-Dah" and hung up! And then there's the grandson in Canada or Mexico who's in jail and desperately needs bail money. In fact, so com- mon are these that when a neighbor went in to the local police to report a scam the offi ce clerk said, "Which one is it? The IRS or the grandson?" One of the most convincing I've had was a long, tearful email from a former classmate. She was on the "vacation from hell" had lost all ID and money and would I please send her $5,000? I called her and she was happily at home in Minnesota! What tipped me off, was she would never had said the "vacation from Hell" that just wasn't in her vocabulary. Poor scammers, they have to pro- nounce things correctly and they'd better have a good idea of what is appropriate for their "scamees", or would we be the "scammee"? 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