soapbox

If any of you all come out to the Seattle area, this is the place to visit. The roses are really coming out nicely right now.

The new house in Edmonds is close to a road variously called Aurora/99/Evergreen way. It just happens to be the road you’d drive down to get a hooker and a motel that rents by the hour, but I think it’s also really an example of what powers the US.

No, not the hookers. It’s the thousands of small used car lots, vacuum repair shops, small box stores, etc. They don’t seem like a lot until you realize that each one of them represents something like two to five solid jobs and the road stretches for 20 miles.

So, huge economic power. Ugly as hell though.