More trip notes.

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* During the Cretaceous Period, the bluffs and other assorted rock formations hadn't been formed yet.  All of that geography was flat.  That means five hundred vertical feet of thousands of square miles of erosion.  Damn.

* We visited a restaurant called Ole's Big Game Steakhouse, which featured more than 100 examples of the taxidemist's art displayed on every available surface not otherwise taken up by signage, electrical outlets, structural members, etc.  Included among the deceased fauna were a black bear, wolf, coyote, a dozen species of deer, a warthog, wildebeast, giraffe, elephant (no shit), and the centerpiece as you walk in the door: a polar bear.

* Filling a restaurant with dead animals and lighting it only dimly doesn't inspire the appetite, and freaks out the kids.

* Switching to Mountain Time screws you up.  It's worse than true jet lag, because it's so subtle.

Comments

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

I am sad that you are not coming to Oregon.

Think of the educational opportunities up and down the Columbia! Lewis and Clark stuff... Oregon Trail stuff.... Fort Clatsop. Hood. St. Helens.

My house.

*sniff*

- Jeho "The Sad"