No, not British, but rather unique and rare: a Datsun 510 wagon, seen in Woodland, WA.  Didn’t get the camera unlimbered in time to shoot the front of the car; a Japanese flag dominates the hood.

Wednesday, 7 October: started the day in St Louis with an oh-dark-thirty drive to Lambert, spent the middle part of the day in Seattle and McChord AFB and finished it in Clackamas, Oregon, on the southeast side of Portland.   Yup, on the road again, in search of LBCs in and around spending some quality time with the kids and grandkids, including the one-month-old newest addition to the family.

Both Seattle and Portland are home to very strong, active Triumph clubs.   The Seattle group is Tyee Triumph, one of the oldest of the TR organizations which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year (Tyee started out as one of the Triumph Sports Owners Association component clubs); great bunch of people who regularly hold an extensive number of events.   You can look them up at http://www.tyeetriumph.org/.   Further south in the Rose City, the Portland Triumph Owners Association holds forth, also quite active; their web page is at http://www.portlandtriumph.org/.

Per usual for the recent road trips, haven’t seen Triumphs or other LBCs yet, but then again, most of the initial patrols have taken place on weekdays, I might get lucky this weekend in and around a run to the coast and phase II of this particular excursion.

Oh, and “Center Ice?”   Tomorrow night’s main activity, with oldest son and his mob: hockey night in Portland, where the mighty Winterhawks take on the hated Spokane Chiefs in Western Hockey League action.   I attended a lot of Seattle Thunderbirds games while I lived in Puget Sound from 1996-2005, it’s great hockey and should be quite a night.

More to follow…