Thursday night in Portland and Friday on the road

Thursday evening, I made my way back to Mezza for a double helping of baklava to go. (Terry made spaghetti for dinner so as to leave Rick and Sandy a couple of meals of sauce.) We all got a taste of the honeyed dessert.

Mezza's very friendly and helpful waitress 

Afterwards, Rick went outside to do some work on his bee equipment. More frames are needed for expanding hives.

 

 Rick at work/play

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Friday morning, Terry and I packed up and headed south toward American Canyon, California to visit Joe and Laura, Doug and Lucille. Along the way, the temperature--which started out at 53 degrees ended up passing 100 degrees and settling at 91 some 10 hours later. We past Mt. Shasta along the way.

Mt. Shasta viewed from I-5

Elevation of Mt. Shasta

We also past many groves of olive trees, rice paddies, pistacio orchards and more in the fertile Sacramento Valley but at 70 mph we had no chance to snap a photo.

Joe did some BBQ ribs for dinner. And it was good.