We awake and take our time today. We eat a continental breakfast offered in room #118. We take our bananas and cereal and muffins and tea into the library.
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We wander back to Powell's to pick through the aisles again. The wife and the child buy a few books.
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We drive to North Plains, searching for Horning's Hideout, which we find. We are here to play disc golf on a private course. We pay our daily entrance fee of $3 per adult and head off into the woods.
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The wife and I play the "pitch and putt" Highlands Course. Then we play the longer, and more challenging, Canyon Course. We play over freshly mown fields and through well-maintained forested fairways. We play over water hazards of a pond and a swamp, a first for both of us.
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We stop by the Rogue Pub in North Plains for dinner. We discover that they are not associated with Rogue Brewing, although they try to make it appear that they do. They carry most of Rogue's beers on tap, and the remainder in bottles. The wife asks if they are related to Rogue Brewing. The waitress tells us that "we were here first before they even existed. We serve they ales, since it works out for all of us."
But the waitress is somewhat cold to us throughout our meal, most likely because the facade has been peeled back and the truth is made known. The food was okay, and I got to have a Rogue Dead Guy Ale on tap, but I could have had the same atmosphere and attitude (and probably food) at a dive bar in Puyallup.
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After dinner, we head north for home and for our own beds. We arrive home, thankful for our time away and thankful for our return.
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