Weeknotes #12

We’re back home after 2 weeks stateside to see family and friends. All that time in cities, traffic, and restaurants for near every meal made our return to the countryside, small lanes, and home-cooked meals all the sweeter. The most immediate moment of “Oh right, the US…” culture shock was going to get coffee our first morning near LAX. My size choices for an americano were regular or large. I opted for regular, which ended up being half a liter (and gosh knows how many shots of espresso). I even asked them to fill it a quarter of the way and still got way more than that. I immediately missed the crew at Brew. While in LA walked down to the Manhattan Beach pier one morning, after getting breakfast at Bluestone Lane (pretty solid food, though, oddly, not great coffee). The morning clouds hadn’t burned off, yet the beach looked idyllic. I’m not cut out to actually live in LA, but it sure is nice to visit every once in a while. Across from our hotel in Portland there was a street-level…

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