SHOUT OUT TO BILL BANYAI FOR ONE OF THE BEST REDS I’VE HAD IN A LONG TIME. BILL DROPPED A BOTTLE OFF AS A BON VOYAGE GIFT, AND IT’S GREAT!
2005 SESTADISOPRA BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
Yup, you guessed it. Cork having a bit of a rough start to his day..... I noticed his shoes about an hour into a walk around the piers in Astoria.... Even though I'm used to this stuff, it can still get a pretty good laugh.
Astoria, Oregon to Westport, Washington
Now we’re talking! Today was one of those glorious days that I had in mind when we decided to take this trip. Slow morning with waffles and bacon done outside on the grill, long walk in the coastal fog with Lily riding her bike, then we went to this GREAT sandwich place for lunch. We found it by mistake when we went into a fish shop hoping they’d have food, but they were a shop that takes the fish you catch and cleans it and smokes it for you to take with you. Anyway, we asked the lady where she would go for lunch and she directed us to the Mermaid Deli. Yea! Then on to the Westport Museum which boasts a Fresnel lens, which was GORGEOUS and AMAZING! I really have no idea what makes a Fresnel lens a Fresnel lens, but I’ve never seen anything like it.
Lily is either going to have the most amazing education ever or it’s going to be total crap. She couldn’t have two parents who are more opposite. On the one hand there’s Cork, who has such an amazing depth of knowledge that he can take something as simple as a toothpick and describe it to death. Yesterday for example, when we were in Astoria, we went for a walk on the pier. Cork was telling Lily about how they made piers out of logs that had been dipped in copper sulfate in order to kill the bugs that would eat the logs making the pier fall down. Interesting, yes? But after 20 minutes of describing each step of the process, Lily and I were both glazing over. On the other hand she has me, who answers almost every question about the physical world (vs. emotional) with “I don’t know, go ask your dad.” And the scary thing is that I don’t know! I mean, I don’t think I’m stoopid, but sometimes I feel as if I haven’t been paying attention for the past 45 years. I tend to focus on how things feel and what’s “going on” with people, but what four faces make up Mount Rushmore? Don’t know. Well, I do now ‘cuz someone talked about it today and I actually listened because I know we’re going there, but yesterday? Nope. (Just in case you haven’t been paying attention either, Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln. Why? Washington ‘cuz he was the first president; Lincoln ‘cuz of the Civil War; Roosevelt established the National Park Service; Jefferson, the constitution.)
