Americana ..... stuff that can only happen here!

The Diners - Each town has it's themed Doners.  We went into a Marolyn Munroe diner - wherever you looked she was smiling back. I must say that for her to be all over tje men's 'restrpom' was enough to put an ancient cyclist off his aim!  Fat Freddies as seen in previous blog, had old black & white pics of the bad old days just after John Wayne had opened up Oregon with the first wagon train - it looked a hard life. We have been in a couple with juke boxes and 'The Fonze' would not look out of place

The Bike shop in Florence - doubles up as a guitar and ukelele shop - run  by a great bloke with a very dodgy eye.You think I am big for cyclist this guy was big  with a wicked sence of humour and as he said he takes all the 3xl clothing but fixed my bike

Taxi into Coos City - John turned up when we ordered a taxi - he was the star of the hillbilly karioke folk and ex special forces - spent all day we us for $40 and appologised. He thinks the Chinese will shoot down the satelites and the US ecconomy will colapse. There is no sales tax in Oregon but some folk who have come up from California think there should be - he does not want Oregon Cali'fornicated' - great word.
Lunch stop - we stopped for lunch at a fading cafe in the middle of not a lot. It took us while to work out the kind of place it was - you could get 25cent dirty pics out of a machine in the men's room - there were other hints around, we speculated about the lady serving and thought she was probably the ' Madam'. Pat kindly possed for a pic but had no idea about the sign.