The weather for sightseeing was crummy today. It alternated between rain and fog for a good part of the day so we intended to stay pretty close to our trailer currently parked at Harris Beach State Park. However, it didn’t take us long to get bored so we voted, 2-0, to head down to a restaurant south of town called Mattie’s where we know they make good food because we have been there before.
Mattie’s only serves breakfast and lunch and that’s fortunate because we were having breakfast right after noon. Mattie’s is the place where the locals eat and the place is always jumping. Not too long after we were seated, a pair of nice ladies even older than me plopped down at the table next to us and we struck up a conversation. It turns out that the less elderly one is the companion for the older one who told us she was 98 years old. Whatever practices she followed in life must be the proper ones because she seemed sharp as a tack. I hope my mind in 10 years works as well as her’s now.
After our afternoon breakfast, we decided to do something productive so we went to the local Fred Meyer superstore and stocked up on food supplies and artificial Irish Cream for our proposed southward progress down the coast. I will wait to buy any real booze until we go about 15 miles south into California where booze is dirt cheap compared to Oregon and almost free compared to Washington. The Pacific Northwest is a magnificently beautiful area but their liquor laws and prices suck.