August 2010
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pancake chef
our flight wasn’t until 11, so we had plenty of time for a big breakfast. and found the perfect spot, pancake chef, just a half-mile from the seattle airport.
this place opened in 1959, and i can’t imagine it’s changed much since then.
regulars
spinach, mushroom, and cheddar omelette with pancakes
it was excellent, but the most amazing innovation is that you get to...
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cafe flora
after three recording days in granger with kdna (a very cool spanish-language community radio station), we drove back through the cascades and spent our last night out west in seattle.
it was my birthday eve and since i was going to be spending much of the next day on an airplane, my lovely coworker, carolina, took me out to dinner. since we didn’t find too many vegetables in the yakima...
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columbia river gorge
less than two hours after we left the cascades, we arrived at the columbia river. the landscape and the weather changed dramatically from cloudy and piney to bright and windy and scorched high plains.
carolina approaches the big river made wavy by wind
like i said, it was very windy. we tried to recreate the magic from lake pontchartrain.
more wind, etc.
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lake easton state park
after lunch, we drove west on 90. after leaving the seattle area, we quickly got into the cascades and made it to snoqualmie pass, where it was cool and rainy. a little past the pass, we pulled off the highway into lake easton state park.
nice lake. nice clouds.
tall tall pines
hugz. also, this place smelled soooo good. can’t beat campfires and pine!
some more pics here.
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square lotus
we arrived in seattle hungry for lunch and made our way to square lotus, a vietnamese restaurant in bellevue with a large vegetarian menu.
summer rolls
special vegetarian pho
(and again, sorry for the blog silence. look forward to good blogging this week from the yakima valley.)