February 11, 2007<\/p>\n
I probaby won’t have much “dish” on restaurants for this trip. The Boyfriend and I are staying at a place with a fully equipped kitchen, so we’ll make most of our meals. The Long Beach<\/strong><\/a> area is famous for its seafood, and since I’m of the vegan persuasion, I wasn’t optimistic about finding Steve-friendly food in the area. In looking through the guidebook provided by our motel, I did see a few vegetarian (not natively vegan) options at a few different restaurants.<\/p>\n We like our room (more about our lodging later). Cell service is almost nonexistent and Internet service is sporadic; that’s not necessarily bad. After our homemade breakfast, TB & I headed into the town of Long Beach for caffeine and Internet fixes. We stopped at Long Beach Coffee Roasters<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n [thumb:1147:c:l=p]<\/p>\n In addition to free wi-fi, LBCR offers large selections of teas and coffees, soy milk in addition to dairy milk, and vegetarian pastries. My Americano (espresso & water) had a good, medium-bodied flavor free of bitterness.<\/p>\n LBCR displays art by local artists in its larger room. I particularly liked the “accent & antique reproduction” furniture by Wayne Ivy. I found some of Mr. Ivy’s business cards at the coffee shop; he doesn’t appear to have a Web site … well, he kind of does now.<\/p>\n [thumb:1149:c:l=p]<\/p>\n If you’re looking for gorgeous Mission or Arts & Crafts style furniture, give Mr. Ivy a call in Oysterville, WA at 360-665-3780.<\/p>\n After getting wired (with caffeine and the Internet), TB and I visited the World Kite Museum<\/strong><\/a>. We saw lots of gorgeous kites and watched a couple of short, interesting videos.<\/p>\n [cpg_album:195,3]<\/p>\n The kite museum is close to beach access, so we meandered along the beach for a little while. Actually, it was fairly windy, so we were blown around more than we walked.<\/p>\n [thumb:1162:c:l=p]<\/p>\n In the afternoon, we went to North Head Lighthouse<\/strong><\/a> in the Ilwaco area. Although in disrepair, the lighthouse is impressive and the views from the Light Keeper’s Trail and the lighthouse grounds are terrific. Later, we went for a sunset walk along the beach in Ocean Park<\/strong><\/a> and then to dinner<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 11, 2007 I probaby won’t have much “dish” on restaurants for this trip. The Boyfriend and I are staying at a place with a fully equipped kitchen, so we’ll make most of our meals. The Long Beach area is famous for its seafood, and since I’m of the vegan persuasion, I wasn’t optimistic about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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