Awake to the gentle sounds of
water and
Claire
playing, and soon Harriet and I are off to
Stone
Soup,
a few blocks from Whitman College,
to rendezvous with
Maricar over hot pastrami, BLT's, and salads.
Next, two day trips adding Tisha and Claire,
north and south,
first up to
Dixie and
Waitsburg
for
a
mid-afternoon
snack
(mini steak soft tacos, chips, salsa -- yes, goodbye weight loss program)
at
Taqueria San Miguel, then down across the Oregon border to
Milton-Freewater (originally a union of two towns "Mill Town"-- rather than a person -- and a place with, well, H20 gratis... yet, somehow one imagines the heroic and non-existant Milton Freewater with deeds of renown, a Lt. Kije of the rolling wheat hills) and
Athena (let's not get started with this one) for a
swim
and a
linger
in
the
park.
More food,
and a re-rendezvous with Maricar, now augmented by Marek (Tisha is off to work),
for ice cream back in Walla Walla, Washington, as the moon rises and
the dogs howl.
