Archive for December 7th, 2006
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Forgot to mention that we ate again at Hobo Joe’s. Had breakfast there one day last year as well. They still have great, giant biscuits. And excellent service. No befuddled, neglectful waitrons here.
The picture below shows the famous Hobo Joe statue. Mine was a quick capture and I was pleased to see afterwards I’d positioned myself so Hobo Joe appears to be looking straight at me.
The restaurant is two rooms, the first one smoking and the second one not, separated by glass. I was in the non-smoking area taking this photo and the christmas lights in the room are reflected on the window. I also took a pleasant photo of a woman and her little girl that is up at Flickr.
My dad says that since we were there last year a car went through the front of the restaurant, he believed on the smoking side, and that area was rebuilt. There was no enclosed porch area out front last year and now there is. I guess a buffer zone against the next car (though one should hope it doesn’t happen again).
Yes, co-adult and I are the kind of people who will drive a couple thousand miles with happy intentions of visiting again cafes we’ve enjoyed. I still remember fondly one in Seattle, Washington that we breakfasted at a couple of times during a stay there.
Hobo Joe’s, Cottonwood, Arizona
And this is a photo I took of H.o.p. at Hobo Joe’s last year.
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The 9th day we strolled Dead Horse Ranch Park.
Dead Horse Ranch Park, Arizona
And drove to a few look-out points in Sedona that we’d not been to last year.
Sedona
Co-adult likes the above photo. I’m not sure about it.
The T Wrecks (alias H.o.p.) takes a break from T Wrecking to meditate upon which rock to take home to his collection
Absolutely no post processing on the above photo of H.o.p. finding a rock to take back home for his collection. Beautiful color.
We ate that night at a Chinese buffet as we knew it would have pot stickers and H.o.p. likes pot stickers. Co-adult and I had never eaten at a Chinese buffet before as we figured the food wouldn’t be very good. This one was uneven in quality but had a couple of nice surprises. And it had great service as we were serving ourselves. We stuffed the food down.
For some reason throughout Arizona I had this thing going on the trip where I kept watching to see who had lamp posts that cut down on light pollution. As we drove places I carried on lame conversations with myself out loud. “Oh look, that neighborhood has the lamp posts that cut down on light pollution. Oh look, that Toyota dealer has the lamp posts that cut down on light pollution.” And yes I was boring even myself.
