Favorite SE Portland places

Please honey, don't make me pack one more box:( maybe if i stay low and quiet he won't see me

We quit for the night and decided to go out one more night....

Our last night out on the town and we we're off.....yeah, i know i messed up the spacing:(

Dinner fave: Esparza's the best Tex-Mex north and west of Tex and Mex:) Muy Sabrosa!

hanging marionettes from the ceiling and tons of flare throughout this place, not to mention their extensive tequila menu...a perfect date place! We actually visited Esparza's the first time we came through Portland during our coast trip summer of '06

Did someone say brew view? Choices are many but these were our fave-keeping the SE theme:)

Drinks after your movie maybe? Ahhh, the blacklight haven bar!

Some drinks..i mean some space drinks, had to keep the flash off to get the full effect:)

The best way to end a night out on the town!!!! Long Live The Wing dog!!!!

Our Journey down to Arizona

Dude, what the F with all the open spaces, this woulda been like 40 pages if i had not gone back through and edited! :(

Hey guys, i know this is coming up late but here goes, I am on hour 2 and just about to start our Mexico post!!!!! Ay, Ay, ARriba, arriba:) I may still have extensive amounts of tequila in me....

So I realize now, a little late that as i post these they will be showing up backwards but i can only do so much...I think i finally understand how to do a posting with text and pictures without messing up too bad:)

Day 1, I saw a lot of this and this. Sheep and the back of the Prev-Mobile attached to the pain in the ass, piece of crap Budget rental. I had never taken the I-5 down through OR it was nice...much nicer than the I-5 through central and southern CA!!

Mount Shasta in the distance wish i could have gotten better pictures, it was so beautiful!

Ahhh, all for you Taj!! We spent our first night in Weed, CA, the idea was that the sun was going down and i wanted to get pictures of Mt. Shasta in the morning since we were driving for sunset:( Unfortunately, it was super cloudy the next day and i could see nothing.

We found that the only place you can have a beer with food is at the bowling alley. We had the best pizza ever with a pitcher of Fat Tire and watched the Yankees lose to the Phillies:) I took no pictures of Day 2 from Weed to Fresno. Leaving WEed was beautiful but after that it got pretty ugly/boring down to Fresno and multiple stops to clean up cat puke or cat shit just made me want to get to a hotel ASAP! WE did, however, find the best Chinese food in Fresno, had it delivered and sat on the bed for hours before getting back onto the road:)

This was after being stuck in L.A. traffic for like 3 hours , lame-o! but on our way
out of the city!!

Finally to Justin's after lotsa traffic, we grilled some kabobs and drank lotsa beer while watching the sunset! very rewarding!

Harvest moon and the pumpkin patch, Yucaipa, CA

Justin took us up here the second day we were in town, he lives in what seems to be desert but just up about 30 minutes is plush forest.

The San Giorgio Mountains in the San Bernadino Forest just outside Yucaipa, CA

Another perfect climbing tree, Steve, go get em!

Lake Jenks, wayyyy up into the Giorgio Mountains of the San Bernadino Forest, just gorgeous! Again, a little mess up but i know you all can tell the forest from the lake!

Justin and Shyam both rocking Chicago Tees, ironic since both are from CA and ironic enough i was in a CA brew festival t-shirt:)

Critters of LAke Jenks..well some, a squirrel and a duck, i wont bore you guys with all the bird pics i took:)..unless you want me to. I got an Acorn Woodpecker, a junco and a stellar jay??? anyone????

2 flats and 1500 miles later this was our picturesque homecoming on top of sitting on the side of I-10 for 3 hours waiting for the trailor tire to be replaced, 80 miles outside of Buckeye.

I saw lots sheep on the way down and a lot of the back of a Budget Truck towing The Prev-mobile, i know not very exciting:) esspecially considering you both had just taken this drive! I have an idea though; Taj, when you come to AZ you have to take the 95 down through ID! It is spectacular and you can take it all the way to Vegas. This is the way that my dad moved me up to Pullman. oops, i need to go backwards, DAMNIT!

Cascade Head- our last coast hike (3rd try)

Phew, i made it through, finally, so i downloaded the images backwards since i am not as computer savvy as steve. there are some mess ups, but it is now 6 am and i have multiple posts that i would like to create, so here it is our last coast hike at Cascade Head in Lincoln City, OR. We encountered this small herd of elk grazing on our way up, totally tame:)
I hope this finds everyone well...

And an even larger herd on our way back down from the hike! These animals are so beautiful, peaceful and Large!! Could you imagine if they got together and tried to stampede you, scary!

yep, another mess up-figure it out:) this view pic should be side by side with the other one to get full effect but it got erased and and showed up next to the wooly bear (soon to be...Isabelle moth)

And those were not the only live creatures on the hike! we saw these little guys too! (couldnt get this guy back down there with his buddies-he showed up here?)

The view from Cascade Head was spectacular and i highly recommend this hike, Taj!!!! It is worth the drive (about 2 hours) when you have time, when you need to get away from it all:) Refer back up to first view picture.....ahhhhh!

Oh, and how could i forget 'shrooms!!!!! but not our favorite kind:) I thought these guys were awesome and had to photograph them!

Will you guys just get on facebook?

I just uploaded a shit ton of pics on to my facebook and it took forever..i have friends and family linked up that way..that is the only reason why i loaded those first. Uploading pics is all in Shyam-i start work at 4 a.m.....not sure what i got myself into here but it sure has been fun so far, not to mention the m-fn sun that brightens my everyday.....We have got pics from Cascade Head-our last coast hike, driving through the gorge during fall, our fave places in Portland, our drive down, a hike in CA, and Shyam's bday trip to Mexico.....ok, here is a preview...

Pizza! Pizza!

Only the greatest homemade pizza ever created. I had to go square because I could not find a regular circular pan. But none-the-less, the greatest square pizza ever made!

Come out to VA and I'll make one for each of ya,
Steve