Road Trip: Day 7 (covering 9/28/07)
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hrjDateline: Portland OR; Current odometer: ca. 200,397; Miles travelled today: 213; Current location of writing: back home again
Short day today, so we popped off to a local bakery for breakfast and I had a fresh croissant with my coffee before getting on the road. I could so get used to this. My weather luck finally broke and it was raining off and on so regularly that I red-lined the notion of going biking in the waterfront park once I got to Portland and took a slightly more scenic route getting there instead. I made the requisite pilgrimage to Powell's Books but ended up buying almost nothing. Either I'm still completely in book-divestment mode or the pickings simply weren't that good. I did specifically look for a couple items I missed the first time around (like one of the Sharan Newman mysteries that only ever came out in hardback) but with no luck. Traffic crawled slowly all the way down to Leslie/Zenobia's place (due, I'm told, to Portlanders not having any notion how to drive in the rain -- which I find a bit hard to believe). We had a small dinner party of four and went out to a local bakery-cafe with a truly dangerous dessert menu.
Short day today, so we popped off to a local bakery for breakfast and I had a fresh croissant with my coffee before getting on the road. I could so get used to this. My weather luck finally broke and it was raining off and on so regularly that I red-lined the notion of going biking in the waterfront park once I got to Portland and took a slightly more scenic route getting there instead. I made the requisite pilgrimage to Powell's Books but ended up buying almost nothing. Either I'm still completely in book-divestment mode or the pickings simply weren't that good. I did specifically look for a couple items I missed the first time around (like one of the Sharan Newman mysteries that only ever came out in hardback) but with no luck. Traffic crawled slowly all the way down to Leslie/Zenobia's place (due, I'm told, to Portlanders not having any notion how to drive in the rain -- which I find a bit hard to believe). We had a small dinner party of four and went out to a local bakery-cafe with a truly dangerous dessert menu.
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