Back home after nice breakfast, thrift store visit and slow and go traffic Wilsonville to Portland
Marisa and I are back home now.
We woke around 7:30 a.m. and had breakfast at 9 a.m., sort of an egg quiche (the waitress called it a strata), fresh fruit, juice, coffee, scone. I had orange juice, Marisa had apple.
We checked out around 10:30 a.m., very pleased at the quiet room with the nice bed. There was a pocket door for the bathroom. The toilet roll was not level and there were a few mistakes made in the setting up of the room, but plenty of outlets and everything worked well. Marisa didn't like the high closet but did appreciate that we were on the 1st floor!
Very calming this Campbell House, immaculate grounds, just isolated enough from the hub-bub yet only blocks away from 5th Street Public Market and near the historic Sheldon-McMurphy-Johnson house at the base of Skinner Butte.
I decided to drive up River Road to Santa Clara thinking we might find a thrift store...and we did, right after the Randy Pape Beltway intersection!
My favorite find was a book of photographs by interplanetary robots with pictures of Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, some asteroids, Jupiter, some of its moons, Saturn, some of its moons, Uranus and Neptune. Also a nice intro by Arthur C. Clarke and explanation of how color photos were made (not easy) of digital signals from these probes. This is the book I always wanted to get although didn't know it existed. Of course, it only goes to 2003. We have since had even more dramatic pictures of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and great pictures of Pluto and its moons...plus even more great pictures from Mars...and shots of more asteroids and even a comet!
Found a bunch of LPs by an Oregon Jazz Band; some LPs I may or may not already own; a book of short descriptions of people from The Holy Bible, arranged alphabetically with a more historic, anthrological spin; a book on the geology formed by the great Montana glacer (including Grand Coulee); a book on Oregon Ghost Stories (including a large section of haunts at McMennamins locations); a book about the movie Hugo, cat poetry, and a small blank book.
The drive home until about Albany, then right before Wilsonville was slow and go, but we got back around 3 p.m. Squeaky was glad to see us.
We woke around 7:30 a.m. and had breakfast at 9 a.m., sort of an egg quiche (the waitress called it a strata), fresh fruit, juice, coffee, scone. I had orange juice, Marisa had apple.
We checked out around 10:30 a.m., very pleased at the quiet room with the nice bed. There was a pocket door for the bathroom. The toilet roll was not level and there were a few mistakes made in the setting up of the room, but plenty of outlets and everything worked well. Marisa didn't like the high closet but did appreciate that we were on the 1st floor!
Very calming this Campbell House, immaculate grounds, just isolated enough from the hub-bub yet only blocks away from 5th Street Public Market and near the historic Sheldon-McMurphy-Johnson house at the base of Skinner Butte.
I decided to drive up River Road to Santa Clara thinking we might find a thrift store...and we did, right after the Randy Pape Beltway intersection!
My favorite find was a book of photographs by interplanetary robots with pictures of Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, some asteroids, Jupiter, some of its moons, Saturn, some of its moons, Uranus and Neptune. Also a nice intro by Arthur C. Clarke and explanation of how color photos were made (not easy) of digital signals from these probes. This is the book I always wanted to get although didn't know it existed. Of course, it only goes to 2003. We have since had even more dramatic pictures of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and great pictures of Pluto and its moons...plus even more great pictures from Mars...and shots of more asteroids and even a comet!
Found a bunch of LPs by an Oregon Jazz Band; some LPs I may or may not already own; a book of short descriptions of people from The Holy Bible, arranged alphabetically with a more historic, anthrological spin; a book on the geology formed by the great Montana glacer (including Grand Coulee); a book on Oregon Ghost Stories (including a large section of haunts at McMennamins locations); a book about the movie Hugo, cat poetry, and a small blank book.
The drive home until about Albany, then right before Wilsonville was slow and go, but we got back around 3 p.m. Squeaky was glad to see us.