Seattle Sojourn - by Lola |
Guess we can't stay on the road forever. I love that life, but at some point I'm going to run out of money. And my liver might stop functioning.
Lila got on a plane bound for In...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:00:00 PST |
Back home in Indiana - by Lila |
Lila writes:
Having searched the West for ways to improve myself bybecoming extra chic and more hip, I've decided toreturn to Indiana -- possibly the hippest and chicestplace of all. Hoosiers are...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:15:00 PST |
Broken down in Seattle |
It happened. We pulled into Seattle with 3,500 miles under our belts. We parked and went out for a dinner of fresh fish. After a night's sleep, we walked out to get some Seattle coffee and ...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:33:00 PST |
Ah, Portland |
California is a big fucking state. We waved good-bye to it this sunny morning.
Eleven more hours of driving showed us that Northern California is filled with snow-capped mountains, wide open s...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:34:00 PST |
Our whip |
The Jetta.
We've put more than 3,000 miles on the car. No major catastrophes. No tickets. No malfunctions. It did take Lila awhile to get used to the German engineering, but now she's powering...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:48:00 PST |
muddy waters |
We're not always completely on target. Close. But nobody's perfect.
We just paid $55 each to immerse ourselves in tubs of warm, gooey mud. The spa people here in wine country assured us t...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:33:00 PST |
going where the water tastes like wine |
In San Francisco, we decided to take a trippy trip down to Haight Ashbury, where the counter culture lives and breathes along with lots of capitalists capitalizing on tourists like us. We drank sangri...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:57:00 PST |
Roller Coast |
A short hike along the left coastline came first. Then we pulled the Jetta back onto Highway One north: A snaking, climbing, dropping, twisting ride that you can't buy a ticket for.
Though she ...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:17:00 PST |
L.A. Women |
Don't misunderstand, I love my sister.
But there are days -- including one before this trip when I watched her jam a years worth of clothes in her suitcase so she'd be sure not to make fa...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:12:00 PST |
the wild, wild west |
Drove from the Valley Hoooo in Scottsdale to California through some mean but beautiful country. Fascinated by creature-looking furry plants along the side of the road, we headed north off The 10 up t...
Posted by Lola and Lila on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:38:00 PST |
