Sights en route to and from Kenton + giant Paul Bunyan

We passed by the Buckman Community mural on SE 12th & Morrison...

as we headed east towards a quirky roadside attraction that we couldn't pass up...

"Animating Life - The Art and Science of Laika" at the Portland Art Museum (Spring 2018)

We didn't have to walk to far from St. Honore Boulangerie; get to the Portland Art Museum...

The familiar figures for Laika's four movies greeted us in the distance...

North County Coffee Crawl - Stop 1: Steel Mill Coffee

During this holiday weekend, Bert and I made an improptu trip up north...

We were actually planning to go to Steel Mill tomorrow, but changed our minds...

Valentine's Day 2019

Picked these up a few days prior...

The new ladybug and the Happy Heart crystal Pez...

Paradise Hills Night Market 2018 recap

We were fortunate enough to park at a friend's driveway for the Paradise Hills Night Market this year...

This was our view walking down Keen St. to get to Dusk drive...

Paradise Hills Night Market 2017 recap

Talk about procrastination...

(not us, but some other folks we were following as we headed to Penn Athletic Field)
This is a post for last year's Paradise Hills Night Market...

which debuted last year and will be returning....

Dinner & drinks @ Caffe Calabria

It was another Friday night...

TC was out with the boyfriend and Bert had a craving for pizza...

The return of the carved Halloween Pumpkins

Bert and TC haven't carved Halloween Pumpkins in FOUR years!

It's been a good two or three years since I've worn my house robes...

Altered Ego Cafe and Hideout @ Southern California Comics + last stop of our Coffee Crawl on National Coffee Day

Still in vacation mode...

I was happy that Bert and I were able to spend this morning exploring not only coffee shops...

Sarap Filipino Kitchen

After my twocup caffeine fix at Jaunt,

it was just a short drive to a new Filipino restaurant on Miramar Road...

Star Wars stencil art, Sicilian Thing Pizza + drinks at Caffe Calabria

On a recent Friday night out...

we saw these cool stencils on a lone utility box...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl: Stop #7 - Pamela's Kitchen Table

Our last stop would be lunch. Us gals gotta eat, right?

We were actually going to leave Little Italy and play it by ear for lunch...

Coffee Stops for Bert's Birthday Crawl - HOB Coffee + Mostra!

Since we were up in this area...

we took the scenic neighborhood route from The French Oven...

The Top Gun House in Oceanside + the Oceanside Pier

From Panels we walked a few blocks south...

to check out a house that was featured in "Top Gun"...

Portland Day 4: Excalibur Comics + Vintage Pink

After our fun stop at TOV Coffee House...

we made our de rigeur stop at a local comic shop...

Summer Road Trip 2018 - Day 2: Visits to Giant Robot, Giant Robot 2 + Coffee Tomo

It was cool to see the Giant Robot store still around...

For those that don't know, Giant Robot was a bi-monthly Asian American pop culture magazine that ran from 1994 up to 2011....

Portland Day 4 - "Eat my shorts" or Bart Simpson in etched in concrete

This morning's pop culture stop...

is brought to you by Bert, who found this ...

Lunch @ Tacos don Roge + dessert from Rainbow Ice Cream

What we really loved about Carpinteria was how close everything was to each other.

You can pretty much walk everywhere here...

UTC + La Colombe Coffee Roasters + Sprinkles, lunch @ The Purple Mint & The Cupcake Store

Both of us hadn't been to UTC in years...

There is all kinds of new construction going on. I didn't realize the mall was undergoing a major overhaul...

Portland Day 2 - Return to Movie Madness (formerly known as Mike's Movie Madness)

The morning's events were quite exciting...

and we would later end up watching news coverage later that evening...