Nicky's Notes: 2016 Summer Adventure

After spending the morning walking around Bandon, we made our way a bit north, then turned eastward across the mid secction of Oregon.

Eugene is a lot like Austin 30 years ago, smaller, less crowded, but still hip. I consulted my trusted restaurant guide, YELP, and decided on dinner at Wildcraft Cider Works. With great live music and food much like Contigo in Austin, it was a fun evening. Band member, Tim, aka Eugene Jeans Huy, told me when he learned I was from FW that his mother was born there in 1938, as his grandmother was traveling from east coast to CA. He said that since she was Jewish she had to go to the black hospital for delivery. Didn't realize FW was still that backward in the 30's. Wondered if my old friend Dr AI Goldberg delivered her. In 1975 when I first started working as a pharmacist in FW, he was the only white doctor that would treat black Medicaid patients. At least some things have changed, maybe.

The next day we tried to go to Crater Lake, but it was showed in and cloudy and cold. This was a cold rainy riding day, in the 40's and 50's most of the way from Eugene to Klamath Falls, OR.

Friday was also a cold ride from Klamath Falls to Reno. Arriving in Reno, we had dinner at Campo, a great little place downtown, and drinks at Death and Taxes, one of Brad's favorite haunts when he in in Reno.

The last day of the Brooke and Dad show, was a ride around Lake Tahoe, followed by dropping off the bike at the local BMW shop for maintenance, tires, and storage till I return later in the summer.

Brooke and I fly back to LA for her birthday celebration, and my next leg of the summer travels.

Tim, Our entertainment at Wildcraft Cider Works in Eugene.