This morning we woke up at Sabrina's grandma's house early. After a tour of her always impressive vegetable garden, we drove back to Sabrina's parents house for a most delicious breakfast of amazing local fresh eggs, gluten free waffles with homemade loganberry jam and a cantaloupe from the garden.
We tried to find a latte in Lebanon, but went into a cafe where the woman informed us she only had cappuccino in flavors such as caramel and white chocolate-- in otherwords some scary kind of mix. So back on the road we went.
We stopped in Portland at a chocolate shop recommended by one of Laura's friends called Moonstruck Chocolate. Unfortunately all of the truffles had butter in them but we each tried a bar of dark chocolate. We would have liked to try their dark chocolate mochas but the coffee machine was broken and we needed wireless anyway so we went a block down the road to Portland Coffee Company. We knew we were back the Northwest since we only had to walk a block to find a coffee shop. It was a very funky urban coffee place, with beat up wooden furniture and very tatooed and pierced baristas. We liked it immediately. Sabrina accidentally forgot to order decaf, and spent the rest of the day feeling very jittery. After coffee and chocolate we finally headed home to Seattle.
We've become quite fond of something we like to call "story time". We have been listening to NPR's "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" and "This American Life" podcasts whenever we need a good laugh. Perfect road trip entertainment.
Ironically the worst traffic we had the entire trip was coming home through Seattle. We finally arrived at Sabrina's house where we began the not so fun task of sorting out the car and all the crap in it. We discovered the source of the vague vinegar smell we had been smelling for a few days in the form of a leaky apple cider vinegar bottle. Laura's car may never be the same. We were ravenous and ate delicous leftovers from last night's dinner that Sabrina's mom sent us with. We were surprised and glad to see it is 70 degrees and sunny in Seattle today-- we take full credit for bringing the sun back with us from California. (You all are quite welcome).
We drove over 3000 miles, ate probably 6 boxes of Mary's Gone Crackers, too many gluten free cookies, and a lifetime supply of hummus. We stopped in health food stores all across the coast and almost always found kombucha, which suggests we aren't as weird as we thought for being so addicted to it. We got lost less times than we thought we would and we nearly always found the funny side of every messy situation. We hope you have enjoyed reading about our adventures as much as we have enjoyed writing about them. Now it is time for us to get some rest before we start a busy school year. Before we go:
Laura's top 3 memories: running out of the ocean to scatter the tons of birds who devoured our rice cakes and crackers, eating lunch on the roof of the car and having people look at us like we were insane and climbing to the top of the sandunes only to find more sand. Laura also now has tons of sand in her car, but doesn't mind because it reminds her of the beach and the dunes. How she loves the beach.
Sabrina's top three memories: seeing Wicked from the front row, swimming in the ocean in San Diego, and #3 is a tie between our day in Santa Barbara and Huntington Beach (however the best picture EVER is the one with us and the Viking in Solvang...)
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