The trip to California ended with breakfast with Hector P1101571 who was looking particularly chairmanly. After the breakfast, I got into my car and drove to the airport to fly back to Princeton. Soon after I got back, Williams builders appeared and started to scaffold the house P1151572 P1151573 to get us ready for our roof work. Our only snowfall of the winter (so far) P1201574 came soon after and made the scaffolding quite pretty P1201575 P1201576 though from the looks of the sleds P1201577 you realize that you'd have to be crazy to climb this scaffolding P1201578 P1201579 when the house looks like this. P1201580 Fortunately, some people are and so our roofs will be weather safe if and when we get the next winter with the possibility of real snow, ice damming, severe cold weather, ... In short, all of those things that global warming removed from our climate.

Fortunately, the weather cleared rather quickly so that a few days later when Dr Len arrived with this postcard P1221581 we were ready to begin the journey to look for the real Clam Broth house. Along the way, we met this man P1221582 who thought we should have been buying furniture and passed this union member P1221583 and the carpet store with the PMGOA (who used to be the muffler guy, we think) P1221584 P1221585 extolling patriotism. Next, we found the sign P1221586 that would take us to our destination where we first saw this liquor store P1221587 and then were told about the strengths of the place P1221588 as we found a place to park so that we could walk the last part of our journey. We roamed past the shark P1221589 and beyond the cigar emporium P1221590 P1221591 to the first signs P1221592 P1221593 pointing the way. Down the street, our goal P1221594 was in sight as the first signs P1221595 became closer. Soon we were there P1221596 and could record their fingers P1221597 P1221598 P1221599 from all directions. The menu P1221600 had all manner of fish P1221601 with lunch specials P1221602 that kept DrLen P1221603 busy studying his options while I had a Guiness P1221604 and his sat P1221605 waiting for him to choose. I had the egg salad sandwich with fries, P1221606 the one vegetarian thing on the menu. He had the soup P1221607 and crabcakes. P1221608 The waitress P1221609 claimed to not be photogenic as she took this picture P1221610 of us. I got pictures of the aquarium behind the bar P1221611 and their selection of liquors P1221612 as we left for the Bake Shop P1221613 with the wedding cakes P1221614 and set off to explore the town.

We first saw the Soup Hut P1221615 which seems to be in the spirit of real soup Nazi. Next, it was the Native American P1221616 advertising wings. Across the street was the soon to be defunct McCrory's. P1221617 As we went further, we saw this dumpster P1221618 but decided not to dive into it. We took pictures of this collection of storefronts. Lallo's P1221619 must have seemed interesting for some reason. The election headquarters P1221620 were for candidates long gone. The Tai Chi class windows P1221621 gave a nice reflection effect of the photographer. Then there were the flag store P1221622 and the Karma Kafe P1221623 which didn't specify which kind of karma they sell and a nail parlor P1221624 which had a very nail parlor-like neon sign. The (closed) antique store had this wonderful ash tray P1221625 for sale as the toy store P1221626 provided nice toys P1221627 and the camera store P1221628 nice artifacts that might be used here P1221629 to take passport photos. A medical store P1221630 warned us about cancer as this lady P1221631 posed with DrLen. This was the sign P1221632 that best incorporated the town's name into their business. And this P1221633 was the required sign claiming to be the city (actually, a the city and maybe even the a the city) where baseball was invented. On the way home, we saw this person sitting by the entrance P1221634 to the Pulaski skyway.