If you are a regular – or semi-regular – reader of my blog you know we cook vegetarian (no beef, pork, chicken, or lamb but seafood is okay) dishes at least once a week. Last year I ran through a lot of tofu recipes but have been looking to go in a different direction occasionally.
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Reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
reading multiple novels by the same author, so I was excited when I picked up this novel by the author of “All the Light We Cannot See”. Although the plot of this new novel could hardly be more different from the first, there are still themes and motifs that carry through.
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Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
As the adage goes: be careful what you wish for. After finishing Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig on September 1 I was wishing for a novel that was more plausible. Well I got that wish with Saint Maybe which is so realistic that at times it borders on grim. Bee Bedloe looks at her family through rose colored glasses:
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California Trip Days 10-11: The Drive Home
Our drive home to Beaverton, Oregon from Santa Cruz, California would be 700+ miles so we planned to split it up into three days so we could do some site seeing. Back in the day we would hop in the car and drive straight 700 miles straight through to visit Carla’s family. Heck; in college my friends and I would leave the College of Idaho campus after our last final and drive 800+ miles overnight to get home in southern California.
But we don’t drive nonstop like that anymore. We like to see things along the way. Our plan was: Day 1 to Chico, California; Day 2 up to Grants Pass, Oregon; and home on Day 3. Well, that was the plan; like our July trip, we had to change a bit because of wild fires and smoke.
California Trip Day 9: Monterey Bay Aquarium
We had one more trip planned before we headed home on Friday August 13: Monterey Bay Aquarium. Carla and I visited there with her parents back in the 1970s and we’ve wanted to return ever since. We thought the grandkids would love the aquarium and we were right. We bought our tickets a couple of days ahead and headed out semi-early for the one hour drive.
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