Brandon
Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 63
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject: Bed and Breakfast Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:04 am |
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First off I would like to say how much we appreciate the people of Lee's Riverside Bed
and Breakfast. They are friends of the wallace's (where we stayed last night) and they
sacrificed one of their rooms to give us a roof over our heads. We were going to pitch our
tent in the front yard but they said we could use one of the rooms. we are just east of
Grand Ronde sitting here listening to one of the best piano players I have ever heard. She
can play songs after just hearing the tune. The Wallace's are here with us after they all
took us out to a great buffet at the casino. We had prime rib, baked ham and I ate a ton of
ice cream and coconut cream pie.
This morning the Wallace's sent us on our way with a delicious breakfast of waffles and
good company. I spent quite a bit of time coloring with McKayla who is 6 years old.
Actually we did quite a bit of coloring last night and the only way she would go to bed
was to promise her that we could start again at the crack of dawn. We were up for the
radio interview with Dan Tooker from Kansas so we did start coloring again at the crack
of dawn. The interview was good but pretty uneventful as it was with only one person and
we are used to talking to the guys at FB&HW with whom we have our final on the road
interview tomorrow morning. We are going to miss those guys. It won't feel right sleeping
in on Fridays and not talking to them.
A little after we started this morning, in West Salem, we came across a used book store.
We could have spent hours there but limited ourselves to just one hour. We bought a few
books, one of which is "A Walk Across America" by Peter Jenkins. That is a must read
after our adventures. The owners of the store were really nice and gave us a huge discount
on the books that we did buy, thank you we are grateful.
It was hot again today and we spent the entire day eating huge ripe
blackberries--delicious. They grow all along the road and we couldn't seem to get enough.
We went about 32 miles today and have about 30 or 35 miles to cover the next 2 days. It's
hard to believe the journey is almost over.
We are very excited about meeting up with our mothers tomorrow and hope to see some
people when we hit the ocean on Saturday. Time to say good bye to the Wallace's so tune
in tomorrow morning for the show. |
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