I better return to my trip or I'll never get done putting up all the pictures (if you follow the Flickr links you'll see that I'm still putting up photos from last year's trip to Iowa and Nebraska). There's no real connection between the four photos above other than they're from Yakima and I liked them.
Yakima was sort of interesting, sort of not. It's the "big city" of Washington's wine and fruit region. There were also enough anti-drug billboards around town to lead me to believe the Yakima area has a meth problem. I believe the bottom photo is the county jail. It is across the street from a nice coffeehouse where I enjoyed a pastry and a chai and wrote a few postcards.
Completely unrelated: For reasons I can not yet reveal I was browsing the Wikipedia entries for small towns in central Illinois this evening. The entry for Gillespie (pop. 3,412) had this important tidbit (see the last line):
Fortuitously I grabbed a screen shot as that line was soon deleted.
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