Spokenn!

[emo_snal]

   ( Beginning of this Adventure )

Monday, May 22nd - This day I was finally headed somewhere new (Spokane)! Unfortunately to get there I'd have to drive up the boring ole five a hundred or so miles to Portland, which I love, without having time to stop there, and then I'd be in new territory for the next several hours.
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[sinnamongirl]

BURGERVILLE!!!!!!!!!! It's my absolute favorite "fast food" place, though they don't like to call it fast food, something more cheesy like "diner food, fast." They are a chain, but a very small regional one. The furthest south is in Albany, so you would've missed it in Eugene. I forget what the furthest north is, possibly Portland or Vancouver, so getting it in the Dalles meant you got basically your last chance at it! Yay!

What I love about them is they do seasonal stuff - so when the Walla Walla sweet onions are in season, they hand-make, every morning, fresh sweet onion rings. They do this delicious chocolate hazelnut milkshake when the filberts* are in season, etc. They've also made a big push to use only local, fresh ingredients, including their beef, which I really appreciate.

*I don't know if you know this, but hazelnut is basically just the more appealing marketing name for filberts. I grew up near filbert orchards so I'm all sniffy about that. They're filberts, dammit! But I still find myself using hazelnut.

[emo_snal]

I'm so glad I completely accidentally stumbled into it then!!!

Also I feel like I remember there being a salmon burger on the menu?

and WHAT THE DIVIL IS A FILBERT?!? I've never heard this word before. Going on what you're saying above.. is it literally the same thing as a hazelnut? Now I'm going to have to google this...

[pundigrion]

Yep, same nut!

And Burgerville is amazing. How you feel about In-and-Ou is how I feel about Burgerville.

[adoptedwriter]

I have two sisters in the PDX area. One is in Vancouver, WA. I love it there.

[emo_snal]

I love PDX. I don't generally much like cities but I would live in PDX. I've looked for jobs there on a number of occasions.

[ani_mama]

We are 2 hours drive north of Spokane, you were sort of in my neighborhood! The pine pollen has been atrocious this year. My car is covered with it.

[emo_snal]

In next entry I drive two hours north from Spokane! ;D (true story)

[ani_mama]

XD Maybe you passed by my house, ahaha. Not many roads going that way.

[emo_snal]

I went up to Kettle Falls is that near or passing by you?

[kagomeshuko]

Yay! You went somewhere new on my birthday!

[emo_snal]

Of course, it would be a shame not to! :D