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The Dalles Bridge (January 2016)
Ellie and I were on our way back to Southern Oregon from a recruiting visit at Whitman College when today’s photo was taken. She didn’t end up going there, so this is from the last time we were in Walla Walla.
2026 is her 10-year high school reunion year and my 40th. Yikes!
大阪城 (August 2013)
Casa Valadez – Anfitrión & Gourmet (Guanajuato, Mexico – 2019)
Once upon a time, 40+ years ago, I grew up in a lower-middle class home, and we had enough money to go out to dinner exactly once a year. That day was Christmas Eve and the restaurant was the Acapulco in Alameda, California. It was our family tradition to go there every year on December 24.
I went back once in the 1990s, and it wasn’t the same. Ownership has changed since the 1990s, at least once, so there is no way to go back to that experience.
I haven’t kept up the going-out-for-Mexican-food-on-Christmas-Eve tradition, although we have done it a few times over the decades. Maybe this is the year to give it another shot?
London, England (July 2016)
I just finished watching Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” on PBS last week. To think that the above was erected more than a decade before those events…
Sayulita, Mexico (December 20, 2015)
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The prayer wheels, with sutras written on them on the left, are said to grant blessings if spun while walking up the steps. I didn’t bother, which explains so many things.