Chow Town: McMinnville, Oregon

McMinnville has a darned cute downtown, with brick facades and those tschotke shops your mom likes, and, for some reason, a bronze statue of Ben Franklin – you can sit right next to him on the bench, button your shirt up, ladies, I hear Franklin was quite the lech, but even better, there’s some fine …


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Abbey Road Farm

We slept in a grain silo and tried to make friends with a llama.

Getting Somewhere, Slowly

Whenever we wander in to a place where humans are visible at work processing food – treats, dairy products, baked goods, you name it – my sidekick says the same thing: “Look! Oompa Loompas!” It’s hard to argue with that assessment when the stuff they are producing is chocolate hazelnut toffee, after all, the stuff …


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