Epicuriosity

Day four – VOO DOO DOUGHUTS!!!!! Drool! We saw this show on Travel channel called Man vs Food. This guy was at Voodoo doughnuts in Portland and was attempting to eat a ginormous doughnut. These are no ordinary doughnuts. We bought a dozen and they consisted of: two voodoo man doughnuts (shaped like a man, filled with rasberry jam and it comes with a pretzel stick so you can poke him and make him ‘bleed’) FREAKIN YUM! We also had one covered in fruitloops, a chocolate one covered in cocopuffs, a snowcone shaped cinnamon one topped with maple icing and dipped in sprinkles, one covered in m&ms…..you get my point. The doughnuts must be made with crack because the line was a block long to get in!

Next stop….Powell’s City of Books. This is why we stopped in Portland. A three story, square block bookstore filled with every book you can imagine. All organized in color coded categories so you can easily follow the map you are given when you walk in the door. Um…heaven? Used books, new books, anything you want. They even had a book full of useless Japanese inventions. We bought a few books and back on the road we went.

The drive through Northern Oregon is BEAUTIFUL. We had no idea what to expect, but the lush forests and gorgeous mountains kept us “ahhing” for about 400 miles. We also had no idea they have more sheep than we have ever seen. We saw farmland, snow topped mountains, rivers, rolling hills and tons of forest. It totally made the long drive more than bearable!

600 miles later we ended our day in Corning, CA. Turns out it’s the Olive Capitol. We didn’t have the heart to tell them that they had nothing over France and Spain!

Next stop…..Napa Valley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!