Powell's City of Books

Back to our regularly scheduled vacation: masked edition. 

We set out from Bandon and FINALLY got some west coast coffee, the first of our trip (unless you count the Starbucks cold brew that Jaron got from the grocery store for our hibernation, which I don't). I know, I KNOW! It's a crime that it took this long. But, it was delicious. 

We headed up the 101 to Portland. Jaron booked us 2 nights at a hotel near Powell's Books, where Julie will deposit all of her tattoo savings. 

Jaron has been craving Dairy Queen for some reason (🙄) and they have either been closed or nonexistent. We were coming up on another one and were sitting in traffic, so Julie started reading its google reviews in characteristic voices. Jaron comes out with his ice cream, which WAS made correctly, and Julie suggested that he leave a review. 

This section of 101 was adopted by Alpacas of Oregon. I guess they pick up litter with their mouths? 

Julie slept a little in the car today, but is feeling WAY better. We found a cafe with outdoor dining for lunch and Julie got the chicken & waffles, which was the best thing I have ever eaten in my entire life. 

Let's be real, we came to Portland for Powell's, not the other way around. We cased the joint Friday night before and proved we could leave without buying anything. Julie was joking and asked if there was a map, and was given a printed brochure fold-out map. 

Quite possibly the best ramen I've ever had. 



Saturday we returned to Powell's for business. Julie got to see the rare book room, which contained this treasure. 



A great time was had by all. Jaron got 5 books. 








Let's just put it this way. The cashier definitely acted like this didn't happen every day, and Jaron got a fraud alert. The hardest part was picking which ones to take home vs wait for them to be shipped. 

After all of that, we needed a nap, so we headed back to the hotel and read & napped for the rest of the day. 

Hunger eventually won and we got up for sushi. You know how much Julie loves s'mores, right? Well, we haven't had any on this trip because we didn't have a cooler to keep the chocolate in. So it was with great irony that we went to a bougie s'mores shop for dessert. 





We got a bonus socially distant visit from Julie's oldest childhood friend! 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pictures

Image
Uploading pictures while I have cell service.  My suit in my chair.  From the top of Paw Paw tunnel. We weren't allowed up there.  Bicycles in the site next to ours.  The Bivy sack that we store gear in. 
Read more

Days 6 & 7: Shitty End to an Awesome Trip

Image
Miles today: 200+ Miles so far: 980? (Gah! We won't hit 1,000 now.) So when we were on the Niagara river, our phones touched Canadian airspace and we both got messages about international rates. When we were getting ready to head out, Jaron noticed that navigation was now in metric and he could not figure out how to change it back to custom. The usual options were not presenting themselves. So we were having an interesting time working with that. At the next stop he was able to change it back to custom, but decided to leave it at metric because, after all, his motorcycle is very popular in Europe.  We officially don't GAF about check-out times anymore. When anyone asks, we keep saying we're amost outta there. Noon seems like a far more reasonable check-out time.  We did not have any hotel arranged for Thu night since we hadn't decided what exactly we were doing on the trip back. Julie has been wanting to "freeball it" and just figure out where we're st...
Read more

Post-Party Depression

Image
Miles today: 317.7 (2,965.3 so far) Hours in the saddle: 5:39 (69:03 so far) Theme music: Eminem & Julie’s “shake it” playlist Cold long-haul day today.  Shook out all of the maps except for PA and did route planning last night. I’m trying to have things to look forward to on the way home other than interstates and cheap motels. 🤮 Starting to feel a little bit of post-party depression ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3Fterm%3DPost-Party%2520Depression%26amp%3Dtrue )  now that our trip is winding down. I’ve spent like 9 months looking forward to it and am already trying to think of the next one. Jaron said we should finish this one first?  So I found a couple of scenic stretches and we have a couple of stops and we’ll get home by Friday. We have our camping gear, but it takes time to set up and pack up and we have just had a lot of long days so we haven’t camped on this trip. I didn’t ever find a good resource for campgrounds in Canad...
Read more