NW vs. NE

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<p>You haven’t lived until you have driven some of my more favorite rotaries. I have a new driver, toughening up on those puppies. It’s like dodgeball, only with cars. No scaredy cats allowed.</p>

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<p>I call them traffic circles.</p>

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<p>Nope. Say it as “Orygun”</p>

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<p>NW vs NE </p>

<p>There’s alot to be said for the west side of the mountains in the NW, but the east side with it’s hot summers, great fishing and tremendous food and wines production is hard to beat. That’s NE to me. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>The Pacific NW (WA, OR and yes even ID) is hard to beat. But by all means don’t move here. IT rains tons and is unpleasant and there is no open space to be found anywhere. It’s just awful (wink wink nudge nudge)</p>

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<p>Whenever we go to New England–relatives in Boston and Maine–I attempt to eat lobster rolls for every lunch and dinner. When I crave lobster and am not going east any time soon, I eat Pacific Northwest crab, whatever’s fresh, whether it’s Dungeness or King. Alaska salmon has any other fish in the world beat… except perhaps scrod, which simply isn’t available any more, fished out.</p>

<p>I did a google search on “fresh pond rotary” (179 references) and “fresh pond roundabout” (0) references (the Fresh Pond rotary is a notorious solution to a difficult intersection at the north end of Cambridge, MA), which would seem to imply that rotary is a favored usage. However, “fresh pond traffic circle” got 5 references. (Note that I used the quotation marks in the search, to narrow it.)</p>

<p>Having moved from the western suburbs of Boston to the eastern suburbs of Seattle, I would say that both regions have something to offer. However, I am delighted to have left Massachusetts drivers behind. Whenever I am in need of aggressive driving (getting to the airport at rush hour, for example), I think of it as “going into Boston driving mode.” I don’t like the pain in my jaw after doing that, though.</p>

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<p>How did old Asa ever behave himself aboard ship with all those gals? They all couldn’t have been spinsters.</p>

<p>Asa- wasn’t really that old when he started.</p>

<p>Lizzie Ordway was the oldest at 35
<a href=“The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History - HistoryLink.org”>Mercer Girls - HistoryLink.org;
Most were in their early 20s or younger.

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<p>Clams are ok but I like mussles better or crab & oysters.( some of the best are from minis neck of the woods
<a href=“http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark/olympia.html[/url]”>http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark/olympia.html&lt;/a&gt;
Ive never been a big lobster fan if I just wanted to eat butter and garlic I could do that by itself :wink:
Salmon and rainbow trout are yummy but one of my favorites are sea cucumbers ( and squid)</p>

<p>Its sad that the Mallory hotel in Portland, where I ( and James Beard) used to love to go & have hangtown fry has been redone and renamed- haven’t been back yet to see what has changed.</p>

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<p>Yes, I too have be confounded by the Fresh Pond Rotary in Cambridge. Egads!! Having grown up in Seattle I was quite flabbergasted as to how to negotiate the darn rotaries on my first visit to metro Boston a couple of years ago. Of course, the locals brought me up to speed fairly quickly with their hand gestures. But I couldn’t figure out why everyone who sought to point me in the correct direction were missing three fingers.</p>

<p>Oddly, I got the same mangled gesture in downtown Boston on Boylston Road when I honked at a pedestrian who wandered into the road, rather than wait on the curb like they do in Seattle.</p>