Day 14, Tuesday, June 29, 2010
This morning we were looking for a place to eat breakfast and found Broder’s Café. It was very European. Floyce had some sort of baked scrambled eggs and I had Danish pancakes which were shaped like a ball, a little larger than a golf ball, with lemon curd and loganberry jam for toppings. Mmmmmmm good! They didn’t have a restroom; only a water closet. Since I couldn’t figure out what to do with water in a closet(unless you wash your clothes), I had to look elsewhere. Then we went to Hippo Hardware; 30,000 square feet of old hardware. It was started about 35 years ago by two guys and a pick-up truck who simply drove up and down the street picking up items that other people threw away. They have evvvrrreeeeything. We bought some neat, neat porcelain “hand shaped” items for the bathroom. One is a hand holding a towel ring, one is a pair of hands holding a shelf, etc. We will show you when we get home. As I am writing this, Floyce is in a shop that specializes in salt. Yes, salt. They have hundreds of varieties(and I thought there was only one). Go figure! We had been told that when in Portland it was a must, to have a Voodoo donut so we went to the Voodoo donut shop and checked it out and they were really good. We are heading on down the coast toward California checking out a few wineries as we go. Floyce likes to collect a few bottles of wine and a few wine glasses for souvenirs.
Driving down 99W toward Albany OR we are going past lots of hazelnut orchards and wineries. Floyce is now looking for a roadside stand to buy some hazelnuts. Heading for Bo Mack’s Bar-B-Q at Albany where it is common for the patrons to break out in song. Well, it didn’t work to go to Bo Mack’s Bar-B-Q as he was closed on Tuesday. So instead we went to Clemenza’s; an Italian restaurant. After supper we did the wash and then looked for a place to stay.