Day 6
This day was mostly uneventful. We had a lovely breakfast in Bend, and ordered two enormous cinnamon buns to go – we still haven’t finished the first one.
We spent a longer than intended at a better than expected museum a few miles out of Bend, and then headed towards Sisters, a tiny cowboy town in the high desert. It wasn’t as interesting as we had thought, and we were running late, so we headed for the coast and Newport.
We didn’t get there until after dark, and, after getting lost a few times on bad directions, barely made our reservation at the Saffron Salmon. AND WE HAD CRAB. It was good.
This hotel, the Sylvia Beach Hotel, is a reading hotel. All the rooms are decorated and named after famous writers. We are staying in the Herman Melville room. There’s a very ugly whale lamp that I have to take a picture of. We spent a lot of last night just tiptoeing around, so as not to disturb the other guests, who are reading all over the place. There are also two cats with whom Lisa is quite taken: Dickens and Shelley.
Day 7
This morning we ate breakfast with the guests, and sat with a peculiar psychic from Seaside OR. Odd, odd man.
Today we plan to do a little shopping, go to the aquarium, maybe get a massage (we didn’t have time yesterday), and then head to our final destination of Cannon Beach, where I will hopefully have internet.
Until then . . .
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[later]
We made it to Cannon Beach, but not without spending a lot of money and eating a lot of seafood on the way.
Still no massage, but that's tomorrow for sure this time.
The aquarium was pretty awesome, and I bought some presents for my parents (I couldn't help it), but other than that, it was pretty unremarkable. Back into the mountains and the beach again to arrive at Nate's parents' house, which is lovely. We had a great dinner and are now just digesting the spoils of the day, all plugged into our respective computers. It's very social. I'm currently stealing internet from the neighbours so I'll keep this short.
More tomorrow, and more pictures, of course!
*EDIT* Just learned that Flickr is currently broken, so you'll have to wait a little longer for pictures of the past two days. Sorry. Blame Flickr.
Posted by Ally at March 10, 2007 12:58 AM