gone again
Jun. 2nd, 2009 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThis weekend was pretty much the worst-case stress test for the 'weekend trip, go to work monday' plan: driving from BWI to work during morning rush hour on less than four hours' sleep. I seem to have survived. Came home and crashed hard but that's not unexpected.
On the other hand, it took me two hours forty-five minutes to get to BWI on Friday. Standard weekender traffic plus fierce thunderstorms plus no one in the DC area can drive if there's anything interesting to see on the other side of the road. Yeesh.
Perhaps the neatest thing in La Conner was a section of the main street shops that were built up against the cliffside. You look between buildings expecting to see an alleyway through to the next street over and instead there's solid rock, and you crane your neck back and the next batch of houses start at thirty feet up. Which is neat enough in itself, but one of the shops (a coffee and oriental-stuff store) has a small outdoor sitting area / park / garden next to it, snug up against the rock face, next to an actual thirty-foot waterfall. In the middle of downtown.
We watched the Yip Yip aliens (several times) and the best version of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart that I've ever seen, and found a book about sheep detectives, and ate an awful lot of ice cream. And also the best eggs benedict (over crabcakes) I've ever had. Saw a seal and several swallows close up (blue and orange and white, not just black-silhouette!) and purchased a book that's more like a piece of mental history (at least I'm reliving my own childhood now, instead of someone else's) and listened to frogs in the distance while wearing fluffy bathrobes, and hiked around Deception Pass, and generally had a delightfully full time of it.
And it's neither raining nor ridiculously warm here today, so life is decent.
On the other hand, it took me two hours forty-five minutes to get to BWI on Friday. Standard weekender traffic plus fierce thunderstorms plus no one in the DC area can drive if there's anything interesting to see on the other side of the road. Yeesh.
Perhaps the neatest thing in La Conner was a section of the main street shops that were built up against the cliffside. You look between buildings expecting to see an alleyway through to the next street over and instead there's solid rock, and you crane your neck back and the next batch of houses start at thirty feet up. Which is neat enough in itself, but one of the shops (a coffee and oriental-stuff store) has a small outdoor sitting area / park / garden next to it, snug up against the rock face, next to an actual thirty-foot waterfall. In the middle of downtown.
We watched the Yip Yip aliens (several times) and the best version of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart that I've ever seen, and found a book about sheep detectives, and ate an awful lot of ice cream. And also the best eggs benedict (over crabcakes) I've ever had. Saw a seal and several swallows close up (blue and orange and white, not just black-silhouette!) and purchased a book that's more like a piece of mental history (at least I'm reliving my own childhood now, instead of someone else's) and listened to frogs in the distance while wearing fluffy bathrobes, and hiked around Deception Pass, and generally had a delightfully full time of it.
And it's neither raining nor ridiculously warm here today, so life is decent.
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Date: 2009-06-02 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-03 12:17 am (UTC)This applies everywhere.
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Date: 2009-06-03 01:51 am (UTC)And yeah, no bags checked. The last two times I've checked bags they've gone on exciting adventures without me. Not cool.