Breakfast Report - Best Western yet again - a big motel - and in the large breakfast room there were plate choices. In front, a stack of styrofoam, behind them a stack of china plates. The room was pretty full of breakfasters....and nearly everyone had reached over the stack of styrofoam plates to the china ones. There were mugs as well as styrofoam vessels - and nearly everyone had chosen a mug. We felt pretty classy.
We made it to Portland - and Lewis and Clark made it as well, then got themselves back to St. Louis where the politics of the times took over their lives… without a happy ending for Lewis. If I were a high school history teacher, I would make the book required reading.
So now an occasional Portland travelogue for 12 days before we begin the trek back – thru Wyoming and Utah. I’m not sure how we will manage without Lewis and Clark – will try to find another absorbing audio book.
The Idaho pass pretty and piney – lovely scented air - then into parched eastern Washington where the temperature began to climb. The car thermostat reached 104 as we went along the Columbia River Gorge into Portland.
I think the food might get better......
Taking the Pulse of America to be continued........ tho maybe Portland too exceptional at one end of the spectrum
So how many bags of trail mix are left? and how many pounds were gained?
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