The Big Adventure, Day 6: A quiet day on Lopez Island

We hired bikes:

And suffered the consequences:

We explored the Blossom Grocery Store. It's tiny, but it ranks with the Farmer's Market on Maui as my favorite grocery store ever. It has all the essentials you would ever need, and all the treats that you would ever want.

New life plan: Winter in Maui and summer on Lopez.

We had a lovely lunch (mmm, eggplant burger with a delicious raw sauce of roasted peppers, soaked cashews, and dates) at the Love Dog Cafe:

Lopez Village has a wonderful local museum, with an excellent display of farm and fishing equipment from the turn of the last century. It's just there, out in the open, for you to wander through. I loved it.

Lopez Village is close to perfect! It's all about small-town democracy!

And literacy!

And lovely restaurants! and organic groceries!

It pretty much pushed all my yuppie-urban-culchie (YUC) buttons.

Also, we stopped by the Island Marine Center and I fell in love with this guy. Based on a display at the museum, I'm guessing Buster is a gillnetter. My dream is to restore him perfectly, and tool around Lake Union beautifully dressed, waving from the tiny pilothouse.