Gorging Ourselves (BBB Edition) #PDX #ColumbiaGorge
A hop, skip, and a jump up the Columbia River. There and back again. A gobbet’s journey.
Last Friday my wife and I left the PDX zone and carved our way up the Columbia River Gorge. This is our humble travel blog.
Why is this called the “BBB Edition?” The clever reader will find three “B” words carefully hidden within this post that will illuminate. See if you can find them all.
We live in a society
I am here to restore your faith in humanity. If you believe that humans are a slug upon the universe and that Earth is the slime trail it has left behind.
Now all we need is a dash of salt and a pint of beer. (To be dumped on the slug.)
society: the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. “More or less!” Ha ha ha! At least they got that part right.
I read today from the Book of News, Human Behavior, Stockholm Syndrome, Chapter 6:
A “middle-aged” drunk man on his way home from a party fell off a subway platform in Stockholm, Sweden, hit his head on the tracks, and knocked himself unconscious. And, as luck would have it, a train was right on the way! You might think that’s the whole story, but wait! There’s more.
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Massacre Lore
Grandpa/brother, circa 16 cycles ago. 60x magnification. Click image for original source.
The father/brother was talking to his son/brother, passing down information that had been handed down from generation to generation. “My father/brother told me this story when I was about your age. Now I’m passing it on to you. Someday you’ll share this story with your son/brother.”
“It was many harvest cycles ago…
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Shouts from the Abyss 
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