Seattle - Tacoma Visit

Sure. Would a pub be an acceptable venue?

maybe - have to see who all is traveling (family wise)

I'll be in Oregon.

No need for a frown, Piffka. It's always fun when I go to Oregon!

Well, I'm very happy I'll be touring the Oregon coast,
but sorry to miss meeting you.

The Oregon Coast--cool! I used to live in Eugene and miss the proximity I had to the Coast back there. Oddly enough, I just started reading "Sometimes A Great Notion" for the first time...

Have a great time!

Thanks, D'artagnan! My sister went to school in Eugene, so I spent time visiting there and also while she was at school in Portland. I'm looking forward to seeing some things.

While I was searching for a good place to stay, the house that partly inspired Sometimes A Great Notion came up... can't remember if it was a B&B or just open to the public. I've forgotten more of that book than I remember. A wild lumber baron family of sons, right?

Right your are, Piffka, re the Stampers. An interesting read, growing more so as I go on.

I'm curious: Where is the house that is said to have inspired the one in the novel? It must be near the coast; Kesey made up the name of the town in his book...

'T's hard for me to imagine the house as described in that book being a great retreat...

True. It seems more the kind of place to get the hell away from!

good book, tho...

Yeah. Oddly enough, reading it has inspired me to see family in Oklahoma, a place I haven't been too in decades. No lie!

Huh. Whattaya know. Apropos of very little -- some distant relatives of mine just moved from OK to Des Moines, WA. Haven't seen 'em, though, and I don't think any of Kesey's writing will inspire me to.

Sometimes it's best to leave well enough alone, eh?

...hosting family for the weekend, btw, so no-can-do...

well there goes the trip was gunna stay at the home of PD.





kidding

hey, the table out back is comfortable for sleeping (the couch and the airbed being taken already).

Next time I am in Seattle I want to meet more of youse. Been there three times now in two years, liked it each time, thanks in quite a large part to Piffka.

My business partner and her husband were in Bend, Oregon last weekend and loved it. I think we might be moving our business there except for the little matter of snow. Plus, I am keen on the coast of anywhere.

I found out recently - from a friend who is a geneology enthusiast and spent a lot of time on my family after I asked one simple question - that I have some Idaho roots besides my ex's mother's connection and my aunt's birth there, near Sandpoint and Lake Pond'Oreille. (That aunt taught on one of the San Juan Islands around 1916...) Apparently my father's father was a lawyer there at the turn of the last century. Big news for a Los Angelena.
Ich bin eine northwest girl. Not. But I'm learning.

For sure, ossobuco, let's plan something for the next time you're in Seattle. I've never yet met any A2K folks--I think it would be interesting--and fun!