Road Trip 2008 - The Kootenays, Idaho and Oregon...
The Foodie Section
Our friends know we are inveterate foodies, and we are very good at sniffing out good places to eat. Of course, it's easy to spend money to get a good meal - our trick is to get a great meal for a reasonable (if not cheap) price. Here's our official "finds" of this trip. Of course, most of these restaurants are in out of the way places, but the food is very, very good - worth a special trip out to try...
Coeur d'Alene - "Brix" - 317 Sherman Ave. Mmmmmmmmm... best crabcakes of this trip. And that winebar.
Idaho Falls - "Collage" - 445 A Street. Bison tenderloin. Perfectly cooked.
Bend - "Merenda" - 900 NW Wall Street. Winebar, complete with an excellent sommelier. Small, asian influenced plates.
Yachats - "River House" - 131 Highway 101 North. Oh, that Ika dish. Had two of 'em.
Cannon Beach - "Newman's at 988" - 988 Hemlock Street. We ordered one of every appetizer on the menu. The lobster ravioli rules.
Astoria - "Astoria Coffee" - 304 37th Street. ok, ok, it's not a restaurant. But... they have the most incredible array of house-roasted coffee and house-blended tea in the observable universe. Make sure to ask for the "weirdest coffee" in the shop - they have never disappointed.
The Inane Pictures
Here we go again! More illogical holiday snaps from the road.... These irreverent and prehaps irrelevant pictures were shot, often from a moving car, with our venerable, and not very capable Nikon Coolpix 5600 - a point and shoot we barely know how to point and shoot. Our pictures are offloaded from the camera, and sprayed up to our website without any processing at all - just downsizing for the WWW.