Saturday, September 15
Dropped the dogs off at Pet Spa – I tried to tell them it was a spa, anyway – and trundled off to Longview, getting there in time to see Katie's high school varsity team play the alums and get beat. Too bad!
Sunday we went to the new IKEA in Portland, partly to check it out and partly because Katie needed curtains for her bedroom – having lived for years with sheets push-pinned up. We were thrilled to see that it's visible from the freeway, right next to the airport, but not so thrilled to find that if you miss the one right way to get there, you're screwed. It was a comedy of errors, but we finally got there. There's only one way in, and if you go past that one turnoff you're thrown into a warren of freeway entrances and exits. Pooh. Katie did get curtains, I got picture frames, and back to Longview we went.
Monday I got over to Astoria to see Dennis and his new house. It's a great old place with a fine view of the Columbia River. He has an old, gnarled cherry tree in his yard which has stuck with me. I'm going to ask him to send me a picture of it, as a possible subject for a painting. We had lunch at a new restaurant on the waterfront and it was good. Then I barreled down the coast – stopping only at a gallery in Lincoln City, the Ryan Gallery, which my brother had recommended. Florence is quite a way down the coast, and I didn't get there till... dinner time, I guess. Checked into the motel and found a Thai place for dinner, which was good, though I thought the service slow. Maybe things are just slower in Florence.
More trip journal soon, or, later.
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