I posted some pictures to Twitter during our week in Oregon, but we also took a few with a real camera. Here is my sister Chris filling the bird feeder in her backyard:
Dub Debrie practicing at home:
Robin at the bar where we saw Conroy-Debrie play:
And a shot of the band in action … the lighting kinda sux:
It is apparent that everyone on the Internet spends the day after Thanksgiving posting about how much they ate the previous day. I'll avoid that ... It's too time-consuming typing on my Pre. Instead of listing foods I'll note the diverse group with whom we spent the evening:
A lifelong friend and his wife, musicians who we will see live tonight.
Her mom and his lovely ex-wife.
Two starving college kids who took home as much food as they had already eaten.
A riot-grrrl legend and a roller derby star.
And Robin. And me.
With a crowd like that, I hardly need to list the food we ate ... The pleasures of the holiday came from the company we kept. The only thing that could have made it better would have been if Neal, Sonia, and Sara had been with us.
Dinner won't be until late, so this is a lazy-afternoon tweet. Eventual dinner guests courtesy of our hosts, Dub and Anne, will include folks from the extended Debrie clan, and perhaps even another Rubio (one lives in Portland). Meantime, we enjoy the sounds of musicians rehearsing.
Robin has an image of what she calls "Berkeley Ladies." I know what she means, even if I can't describe them. It seems odd that we traveled this far from home, and then met a Berkeley Lady. But my sister has a friend who used to live a couple of blocks from us, and now lives in Sisters, and she came to dinner this evening, giving us the chance to finally meet her. She does both Berkeley and Sisters proud; it was a pleasure to meet her.
We're visiting family and friends in Oregon this week, and today we hoped to drive to my sister's house (coincidentally, she lives in Sisters, Oregon). We got to Klamath Falls around 2:00, and after extended discussion with Chris and Karen, we decided not to chance the potentially icy road to Sisters. So we're spending the night in a motel in Klamath Falls, and will drive to Sisters tomorrow.
I am v. naive about this kind of traveling. It's our first visit to Sisters, and my unthinking assumption was that we'd drive up I-5 and take the Sisters exit. Sisters, of course, is far off of I-5 ... it's in the mountains. As I will find out tomorrow, Chris and Karen live in Nature. Robin reminded me that we traveled to Andalusia in November, back in '03 ... we've spent time in the mountains when I should have known better. And Sara reminds me that there were several Thanksgivings when she was a kid that we drove up to Portland (same friend we'll be visiting this time around). Still, Portland is I-5, so the part where you have to bring chains for your car and spend the night in Klamath Falls because of weather, that's new to me.
Our motel is functional ... Robin's been watching crap movies on SyFy all day ... and there's a Chinese restaurant attached, which was tasty indeed. Mostly, though, this is my typical boring tourist post. More tomorrow ... I know you can't wait.
Nerja Today is a good English-language web site to keep up with the goings on in Nerja, or just to enjoy memories of recent visits. One of things they do is post short videos of Nerja life. Here are a few that bring back our time in June, and other visits.
Plaza de la Ermita is a place where Robin and I kicked it in the past, although this time I was the only one who stopped by. At the beginning you’ll see Hostal la Ermita, where we stayed in 2000 and 2003:
We walked this street every day … among other things, it has a gazillion restaurants. The second one, Sevillanos, is a place where we ate with Katie and her friends and family:
This is the bar next to our apartment. I was headed there to watch USA-Spain, but it was closed for a holiday:
Here is Burriana Beach, where Ayo (and others) makes his paella:
And finally, the view from the Balcón:
If you wonder what our days are like in Nerja, these videos give a good idea … if only there was one of Robin eating an ice cream cone …
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