Interiors
End of an era, the old phonebooth. This one is more than sadly neglected, the broken handpiece had some vegetation in between it's halves.
The first day it rained. Off and on and off and on and on. Something about the roads there, or the drivers who seemed remarkably sane and stayed to posted speeds, at least on US30, or the rental car a bit heavier than our own, but I had no anxiety about the drive along wet and winding roads. Good to get off my feet and out of shoes by the end of the trip. Then we wandered out to explore the damp town, without a map, but still found our way around just peachily.
We rather lazily just stopped at the Pig and Pancake the first morning. D ordered a western omelet, so when this came, he commented, "I was hoping some eggs would come with it." The almost exactly not unlike tea beverage was at least warmish. And D's meal turned out acceptable, after a while. Andrew and Steve's cafe the next morning was so much better, with excellent hashbrowns, the best French Toast I've ever tasted, and something much more like tea.
After the intensity of the beach, we stopped at Tokugawa Antiques to come down and warm up. Amazing gem of a place. Then off to the Columbia River Maritime Museum. Not sure of their photography policy, I only snuck in a few. That will get a post of it's own, later. Got hungry, so off to Rogue Brewery for lunch.
They had chocolate stout, the one beer I can never resist. And haut dogs, with chili, all done to perfection. That will get a post as well. Restorative meal, then back to the museum, it was that amazing.
Labels: vacation
Posted by Zhoen on Saturday, February 28, 2009
6 comments:
Do you think the phone booth started eating plants because it was starved of nourishing coins?
Sadly, I think the phone was killed, and the plant is eating it, actually.
dear Zhoen ~
through a web link, i came across your blog “One Word” a while ago, bookmarked it, and returned to it a couple of times, and also read your story “Fail” on the “Podcast” page.
the thing is, i am a writer, and am also editor of an e-zine, the BluePrintReview. right now i am working on the next issue. here a link to the current issue: http://www.blueprintreview.de
there are about 14-18 pages in an issue, and every page is coming with a text and a photo from different contributors. the theme of the nest issue will be “The Missing Part” – and while working on it, i remembered your “Fail” story. it would be such a great match for the issue, and i would like to include it.
let me know what you think about it - you would receive a preview of the page, and your name and the link of your blog would be included.
looking forward to hear from you ~ i looked for an e-mail contact, but dind’t find one, thus the comment post. my e-mail is: editor@blueprintreview.de
best,
dorothee
editor blueprintreview
Sounds like you are having a very nice vacation.
Too bad about the first breakfast described. Great news about the second.
"The almost exactly not unlike tea beverage" - I like it!
Chocolate stout - what, I wonder, is that?
Phil,
Done now, of course.
Isabelle,
A close paraphrase of Douglas Adams, of course,
"almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"
Chocolate stout that I have had from microbreweries actually has cocoa, not sweet, but lots of flavor. Usually much like an oatmeal stout, but with a particular darkness that I love.
According to wiki,
"Chocolate stout is a name brewers sometimes give to certain stouts. The name "Chocolate stout" is usually given because the beers have a noticeable dark chocolate flavour through the use of darker, more aromatic malt; particularly chocolate malt — a malt that has been roasted or kilned until it acquires a chocolate colour. Sometimes, as with Young's Double Chocolate Stout, and Rogue Ales' Chocolate Stout the beers are also brewed with a small amount of real chocolate."
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