The Beatles taxi-tour guy is named Danny. We spend five hours trying to outdo each other at dropping names.
Danny tells me that he met Jim Morrison and I tell him that Jim was my roommate.
This is the Liverpool Catholic Cathedral. It looks a lot like the Apollo command module.
Danny likes the Grateful Dead. I tell him I heard them play at a free concert in Golden Gate Park in 1965. It goes on like that all morning. He's a likable guy.
Ringo grew up in the row of houses straight ahead. The Empress was on the cover of his first solo album.
We see a lot of Penny Lane stuff. Most of the street signs get stolen by fans.
This is Freddy Mercury's apartment on Penny Lane.
John spent a lot of his childhood hanging out with the orphans in a place called Strawberry fields.
I loan my camera to Brooke and end up with 159 pictures. The new camera takes a 14 meg shot so the old one gig card is soon full.
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This is Johns childhood home.
This is Danny. He went to drink beer and play in his band after dropping us off. We makethe ferry to Holyhead after a two hour drive and sleep in Dublin.
Today is a long driving day. We say goodbye to Torqay and drive to Strattford-upon-Avon and then Liverpool.
Taylor and Brooke want to see Shakespear's birthplace and the royal Shakespear theatre. I can't tell whether the town center is as old as it looks or whether it's a clever Disneylike creation.
In any event, we enjoy the fish and chips for lunch and only get lost once heading up to Liverpool.
We watch the England/Italy soccer game in an Indian pub and have way too much curry.
We have a five hour Beatles taxi tour scheduled this morning, then a two hour drive to Holyhead to catch the ferry to Dublin and our B&B.
Downtown Liverpool is suprisingly beautiful and packed full of large museums. We all wish we had two more days to spend here...so it goes...
I'm thinking about seeing the Maritime Museum and letting Bubbye and the kids do the taxi tour.
This place had frozen halibut. I had to buy paprika, scallions, sour cream and dry white wine to make the recipe.
1 cup dry white wine
2 tsp. salt
1 lb. Alaska Halibut steaks
¼ cup fine dry bread crumbs
½ cup each sour cream & mayonnaise
¼ cup minced green onions
paprika
Combine wine and salt; pour over halibut. Marinate in refrigerator at least 1 hour. Drain halibut on paper towels; dip both sides in breadcrumbs. Place halibut in shallow buttered baking dish. Combine sour cream, mayonnaise and green onions; spread over halibut. Sprinkle with paprika. Bake at 400°F for 10 minutes per inch of thickness, measured at the thickest part, or until halibut flakes when tested with a fork.
The Beatles song, "Come Together" came over the FM today. "One and One and One make Three" and "Come together over me". This seemed at the time to be proof that Paul was dead. We remember the "Paul is dead" sensation. We tried to play "Number nine" backwards to prove it but didn't know how.
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Oregon is known for spectacular tide pools. We saw some today on a long fin of sandstone that extended 400 yards out into the Pacific.
The fin has tide pools at low tide, but the "sneaker waves" will wash you away if you wait for the tide to come in. I was standing on the beach taking pictures when a rogue sneaker wave came in and got my sneakers wet.
The temperature here rarely rises above 70 degrees F. It's a great place to spend summers if you don't like being hot..
Last night I woke at 2:30 AM with a wet sensation in my ear.
The rocks here have been carved into very strange shapes by the waves.
It's a wonderful place to wander and take pictures.
These black seabirds were clinging to a cliff. I think at first thatthey might be black oystercatchers, but then Colm, over in Ireland, tells me they are comorants...he's right.
Today is out last day in Charleston before heading north to look for more tide pools. There are several State Parks nearby that we want to explore before we leave. One has some 200 foot waterfalls. Another has tide pools. This morning fog limited visibility to 50 feet at the water's edge. Maybe it will disperse later.
