Friday, July 23, 2010

July 23 - Bouncing Along


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.