On the “morning” of Thursday, June 28, Cenaida and I set off on Best Road Trip Ever 2007. First stop: Seattle and Pike Place Market.
Avoidance of exorbitant parking garage prices and a pound of Rainier cherries later, we were on our way to Canada. Incidentally, I just found out that I’m very glad I don’t live in Japan, because Rainier cherries are at or near the very top of my List of Favorite Fruits, and the Internets told me that they can cost up to $1 each in Japan ($5/pound at Pike Place). Apparently, my mom was right about some things being dipped in gold.
This Pike Place pig was fully clothed, unlike the nearby Pike Place mer-pig, from whose double rows of sans-seashell-bra teats I will shield your innocent children:
(Note: The shirt reads “I heart color” in the fashion of a red-green colorblindness test. It’s okay; I have a colorblind friend.)
We accidentally lied a couple of times to the people at customs, and tried to find Sasquatch Provincial Park. Which we never did, and instead camped at a random provincial park we stumbled upon at approximately 9:20 p.m.
Back when Cenaida was the Best Roommate Ever, we used to make brownies together, sometimes. “Let’s make brownies,” Cenaida would say.
“Okay, let’s!” I’d say. Then I would continue to sit on the couch while Cenaida made brownies and then let me eat some.
So here we are setting up the bear-proof tent:
For not having any bathrooms (just a flush toilet cleverly disguised by a pit toilet structure), this was an exceptionally nice campground. Check out that sturdy picnic table. And a rock!
And that poison oak I brushed across in the forest while trying to find a rock to pound in tent stakes turned out to only be a blackberry vine after all.
First Day Observation
Calvin has come so far: from innocent, lovable, unmerchandised cartoon character, to peeing on the logos of assorted automobile companies, to praying at the foot of a cross, to finally becoming a girl praying at the foot of a cross.
The World’s Three Greatest Inventions
1. The Thermarest
2. The car adapter (really two: the one that lets me play the iPod through the tape deck, and the one that lets us plug regular cords into the cigarette lighter via a big orange box)
3. The superfancy, solar-powered parking meters that accept credit cards and let you stick your ticket to your window and park in different parts of town if necessary
