http://twolanett.com 5000 Mile Road Trip in an Audi TT Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:40:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Bear That Was Always Hungry For many years I had a favorite book. It was called “The Bear Who Was Always Hungry”. My childhood copy was literarily read to pieces. The back of the book was falling off so you had to be real careful when you held it in ... http://twolanett.com/?p=196 http://twolanett.com/?p=195   Food Best breakfast feature ***** a dough machine and a waffle iron for making your own warm waffles with syrup. Yammee! At the Super 8 Motel in Ogden, Utah Best breakfast ***** at Good Harvest Cafe in Crescent City, California. Blueberry buck wheat pancakes with ... http://twolanett.com/?p=191 The Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. The huge primordial rock formations are so alive, like sculptures. Maybe this is God's testing field when the Earth was created Balancing rock This rock arch landscape blows my mind. Here I try to capture a small part of it with my dog camera that ... http://twolanett.com/?p=186 The basics We were traveling from Vancouver to Vancouver Island to visit Victoria, BC. Overnight we stayed at the Western 66 Motel in Saanichton outside Victoria. We had a great seafood dinner at a little bistro out on the pier in nearby Sidney - the Pier Bistro. They are located just ... http://twolanett.com/?p=184 We drove right into the Vancouver sunset In Vancouver we stayed with our wonderful friends Graca and Ahmad - don't miss taking a look at their Flickr sites http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgbon/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kavous/ the Flickr troup going for a walk at the marina Ahmad's tea We didn't find any real ... http://twolanett.com/?p=174 Yuan Sheng Hang in Seattle, WA can help you out with Chinese teas and medicine. Ya Mei Xie and her husband, Xin Pei Zhang, are located on 666 South Jackson Street I got Chinese medicine for my sore throat Chinese tea ceremony at Yuan Sheng Hang's. The owner gifted us with ... http://twolanett.com/?p=170 The Panama Hotel in the Japanese neighborhood of Seattle, WA, is dating back to 1910. Present owner Jan Johnson does a great job in keeping the historic atmosphere of the hotel and cafe. Jan's handmade wooden table without a single nail the Panama Hotel has a big tea selection - and you ... http://twolanett.com/?p=160 Joel and Hanne. We met Joel at the boatyard in Portland, Oregon, by the impressive Columbia river and spent three wonderful days on his houseboat. Besides being a boat aficionado Joel is also a wonderful photographer - take a look at his Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/buckaroobob/ Everywhere in the houseboat you ... http://twolanett.com/?p=155 We had a delicious curry lunch at this Indian-Chinese teahouse downtown Portland. From their website we quote this Daily Tao: "Anyone who aspires to follow the Way of Tea, guard against jealousy. If you place yourself in the center, to envy others, to tempt others - you will ... http://twolanett.com/?p=151