Thai Lanna

Thai Lanna is a great place to eat in Augusta Maine.


The Thai iced tea tasted the same as any Thai iced tea I'd ever had, plus a straw wrapper made into a lotus blossom. Satay awesome. The drunken noodles were great, but lacked the traditional spiciness of drunken noodles (turning napkins into Kleenex).


The most unique thing about Thai Lanna is that it is in the same building as the Augusta Maine State Airport, they even share bathrooms. I got there at 8 p.m., so I was able to watch the last daily U.S. Airways flight land and tie down at the end of the night. You can check the schedule online to guarantee a plane landing while you eat.


Thai Lanna, Augusta Maine

Memories in Maine

On Water Street in Augusta Maine, scaffolding and caution tape remind me of more populated places. Cities. A tapestry of Jim Morrison reminds me of a time I was walking around Haight Street in San Francisco and saw Jim Morrison walking down the sidewalk (even though he died before I was born).


As I was walking up State Street I looked in the window of a tore up house and saw an old friend I knew from the Edward's House Inn, Phil. He showed me the remodeling work he was doing on the fire-damaged house.


We looked out the glassless windows at the street below. It reminded me of the ramshackle Demon House in D.C.

Spring in Maine

Spring has finally reached Maine, a month late. Better late than never.


Maine Capitol.

Good Lunch

The A-1 Diner Gardiner Maine.


I went to the A-1 Diner in Gardiner Maine with Matt Stone. It is a good place to eat. They have decent meatloaf.

Commuting

Landscaping cloth, Kennebec Journal Building parking lot, Augusta Maine


Commuting to work, Western Avenue, Augusta Maine

Bad Lunch

I went to Gardiner Maine to meet Matt Stone for bad lunch.


Tea with high fructose corn syrup, bad but not too bad.


How to make a bad sandwich worse?
I think this hair displaced about half the meat in my chicken wrap, but I took it out anyway.


I rewrap my wrap and eat it. I think that girl uses Pantene. A lot of body in her hair. But none of her hair in my body.


Then got some coffee at Dunkin Donuts in Gardiner Maine, and looked down the riverbank at all the Dunkin Donuts' cups.

Weston Street Lodge

Weston Street Lodge, Augusta Maine.
This is the place where I am not busy writing a book.
This is the place where I do my taxes in the middle of the night.
This is the place where I am not getting any younger.
This is the place where all of my current ideas reside.
The place with low ceilings. The place with 2 stories, half of 1 mine. The place with a creepy attic. The place I make coffee daily. The place with nice light coming and going through the windows. The place I hear the paperboy place the paper inside the door every morning at around 5. The place I will start spring cleaning soon. The place I hope to have a yard sale too. The place I have very fast internet. The place I rent. Pay some utilities. Pay no attention.

Mainey

Maine warehouse.


Toyotas and Subarus are preferred political platforms in Maine.


A bunch of liberals at The Liberal Cup in Hallowell Maine.


Maine music is mostly freedom rock.


A view of Maine's capitol from beyond the waste water treatment facility.

. . .

Also, did I ever tell you about the time I "almost one-upped" Drew Carey? No? I forgot about it too until yesterday when instead of googling myself, I yahooed myself.
Let me set the scene. It was a beautiful winter evening in Kandahar. Dust blowing in from the tarmac. As soon as the sun set the KC-130s started flying in supplies. And I happen to be shooting the bull (as we often did in those days) with Gen. Tommy Frank's wife, Cathy, in the bullet pocked lobby of the Kandahar International Airport. I think we were talking fashion, because she mentioned my scarf...
Well, click this link and read it for yourself at Entertainment Weekly.

Road Trip: from Augusta Maine to Augusta Maine via Augusta Maine

Donna talking and driving.


Pepsi Americana


Maine Statehouse


Eating at Bay Wrap Augusta Maine.


Iced coffee also.

Inside the Beast

Wal-Mart photo art.


Attention Wal-Mart lobsters.


Classic Wal-Mart shopping.


No Wal-Mart child left behind.




Maine Bicyclists


I walk from here.

Taxman

A reminder. www.citizentaxfree.com is free and easy.