Day 3: Yakima to E-ville

Day 3:  Yakima to Portland to E-ville

Mt Hood is visible at bottom of pic

 Quote of the Day: Really, you won’t wait for pastry?

Weather: Cool in early morning in Yakima, drizzly at lunch, raining at PDX, hot in E-ville with smell of smoke in the air

A brief trip to the FC for the 7 minute workout and stretches. THB and DB decide to walk to Safeway (about a mile away) to get another plastic tote bag for our unshipped apples and then arrange a stop on the walk back for breakfast at Essencia. Even though they’ve been open for 20 minutes, the pastries aren’t out. The coffee orders seem backed up even with only 7 people inside. Another few minutes go by without service and THB says: let’s have breakfast in the hotel…one of THB’s pet peeves is places that aren’t ready to open when they say they will, let alone not ready to open early.

Breakfast of yogurt, smattering of granola and fruit (included); we sit with J, now 75 + 1 day. She didn’t seem any different today. Hotel Maison: $462 for two nights which includes $10 for overnight parking and breakfasts. Finish up packing and posting (yesterday’s post: NUMBER SEVEN HUNDRED!!), around 9:30 we head to lunch with B&T near the Portland airport.

Former "poor house"

They have picked a special spot: McMenamin’s Edgefield. Two brothers have been re-purposing obsolete buildings in the Northwest into hotels and various assorted other semi-associated businesses: eateries, breweries, wineries, theaters and glass-blowing studios. Edgefield used to be a “poor house”. We got a peak at some of the rooms, complete with old style wallpaper, beds, and furniture of bygone eras, looking freshly done. Some of the hotels have en-suite bathrooms, some have communal restrooms. Some places that the brothers converted: schools, fire stations, power stations, etc. 

Get your McMenamin passport stamped

And, to THB’s delight, they sell, for $30, a “passport” where you can accumulate stamps from the various spots you might spend the night, drink or carouse….DAMN!!

We dine at one of the several possible on-site choices: the Black Rabbit. B and THB go for chilaquiles (THB has his con carne asada y salsa) and P and DB opt for the lobster rolls. P has a local cider (not up to Tieton Cider Works Ashmead’s Kernel, still pretty good), B and DB have hot tea and THB has ice tea. B and P treat!!!

Somebody famous in the history of the poor house?

The lighting in the hotel is very dim, this is the door to the women's restroom

Return the car to Budget off the airport and the shuttle back seems slightly more direct than the drop off when we arrived. $215 for 3 days of lots of miles of easy driving.

Southwest flight home, back in E-ville to hot weather and the smell of smoke from a fire in Vacaville.

Next trip: a cruise to Antarctica most of the month of November.