West Coast
Monday, 27 June 2005
Me and Dan's road trip was FAB. We have been to muchos places on the west coast of America (and a bit of Canada) and it was great.
The bars in all the cute little wild west type villages were not full of cow boys (except the one we already told you about) but had a vast number of types of real ale and highly entertaining american people in them, who all wanted to have a very enthusiastic and loud chat with us. The other type of place we stopped in was kind of like a town based around and out of town shopping centre full of cheap motels and chain food restaurants (Pizza Hut is the worlds largest user of cheese!!!), and one very in bred looking family with bad hair and
a few congenital defects.
The west coast is absolutely beautiful and for the most part deserted, big rocks and grey sand and a very unpeaceful Pacific bashing up against it all. We wandered through the giant redwod forests, which make you feel all quiet and small. They're just like what you imagine a forest to be like. We also drove up to Mount St Helens, which exploded in 1985 and took out a massive area of the forest. From a distance the area looks kind of obscene, like a badly shaved bikini line. But when you creep up on it you can see how the plants are all re-establishing themselves slowly, there are loads of little alpine flowers and mount St Helens itself is huge and snow capped and has plumes of smoke coming out of it. It is still really active so you're not allowed too near.
When we arrived in Canada we got lost and ended up in Cloverdale (a kind of rubbish run down small town) and stayed above a Karoke night in a pub which was really similar to the Yorkshire Lass in New Marske. The locals there were highly entertaining and the beer was only $2.25 a pint. Bargain! Our bed shook all night. I'm not sure if this was meant to happen or not. We made it to Vancouver pretty swiftly the next day. Vancouver is cool, it looks like a nice place to live and the Canadians are really chilled out and dont shout all the time.
I like Seattle best though because it has the best bookshop in the world, which I want to live in. they also have a lot of coffee there. A lot. Its realy nice.
**Dan update** There are lots of new photos up from San Fran, West Coast and Canada. Have a look. The volcano ones are wicked.
On June 28, 2005, Dad and Barb said:
Hi Dan and Catherine
Glad to see you´re enjoying yourselves and we see you have a new friend "the chicken".... just one question - where is Ringo the wombat?
We are in Mora D´Ebre and it´s very, very hot!!!! we also seem to have brought the flies from Alice... can we have our nets back????
Glad to see you are keeping up with the dispondency photo´s!
On July 29, 2005, adeleeeeeeee said:
The Kareoke Pub should be twinned with the Yorkshire Lass, that would really put New Marske on the map!!
Love adele xxxxx