Holiday Inn Express Portland South - Lake Oswego
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An Uneventful Travel Day
... dogs, which were barking as he spoke. He said the dogs have been barking night and day for a couple of days. He thought that they had eight of them! Not all small dogs either. And three kids as well. They seemed to be in need of help. He actually offered them money to MOVE! They refused the money stating that a church in Gold Hill was going to help them. To make a long story short we felt a need to help them. Not help them move just ...
Pretty remote!
... paddies. Some already emerald green with fresh growth, others empty, brown and dry. Farms everywhere. Hay cut and stored in great bundles in the arm like branches of huge deciduous trees. Early spring planting beginning in a red soil. Sunflowers burst from on largish field like a happy song.
Pottering around Portland
... have Eat, Prey, Love, and Tales of Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman. Both are books about women who get lost in their lives and find them selves again through travel. Eat Prey Love is the more well known of the two but I’m finding it harder to immerse myself in and end up getting Tales of Female Nomad. Sometime after 1pm I eventually manage to drag myself away from the store. Even then its mostly because my stomach is grumbling and I need lunch.
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The end of the summer break
... noteworthy (and to us bizarre) impressions while in the US. It began with something as mundane as exploring American refrigerators. The chemical labs provide quite some marvellous goodies for the dining tables. Instead of liquid coffee cream we found dairy free coffee whitening powder – substitute that has absolutely nothing to do anymore with the original. Along the same line to us was sugar free syrup. I always thought that syrup ...
Back Home - The Finale
... clever egg boilers, where there are several small baskets, each of which can accommodate two eggs. You lower a basket into the water, and four minutes later you have an undercooked egg. Voila!
All our hotel showers were in tubs, and they had glass doors that extended only about 1/3 the length of the tub. The room attendants cleverly set the shower head so that it points out of the tub just past the end of ...