Today, in Ellensburg, a two fingered truck driver shared his beef jerky with me. The jerky was from Quince, WA. He said it was the best in the country, i guess a he'd know. At the trucking company we also met a female kitten named Harley. Gender bending truck drivers.

For lunch we stopped in a coffee shop named D'Art. it was owned by a Honduran megalomaniac who said that he wants to "open 1000 shops like this." the "barista" made really bad coffee and made the wrong one for Caitlin and when Caitlin tried it and returned it, I was embarrassed but the woman who made the coffee said that she would drink it later.

Then Caitlin and I drove to Yakima, Washington and looked for a place to eat in a deserted downtown. We finally found a mexican restaurant in an old train car. i had an enchillada. we walked around the town full of closed store fronts. the only people on the streets were cops, drunks and boys. it looked like a ghost town. i saw a coffee shop with an neon sign that read "open," but when i got closer there was a cadboard cutout of a life sized woman taped to the window and no one in the shop. we drove around the town looking for a store to buy tampons. we finally found a corner store but Caitlin was too embarassed to buy the tampons, so i volunteered and also got a gummy candy in the shape of a hotdog for 25 cents.




when we got back to our hotel, the parking lot was full and there were men in suits sitting in the lobby. There is some convention going on here. Some guy named Clayton Green is holding a motivational speech about investment. we paused to listen, but a scary plastic man in a suit came up and started questioning us about what we were doing there. Caitlin lied and said the we were stay at home moms because she was afraid to tell him the truth. now i am sitting in the business room of the lobby and writing this on the computer that's available for guests of the hotel. the door is open and i can hear the people from the convention talking about investment and making "smart choices." i wonder who the Clayton Green is, the guy we met said that he came down here "just for the association" to be seen with Clayton. He said it's good to hang around "the best." He said that Clayton Green is "the Tiger Woods of the investment world." He just looked in here and asked me what i was doing!! I think he is either spying on me or thinks I'm spying on him.