2004-02-09 - 2:35 p.m.

things i learned on a 72-hour road trip through washington state with my college ex-boyfriend

• espresso goes with everything.
  
• the olympic peninsula is home to the only deciduous rain forest in the world
  
• sexual tension makes everyone cranky
  
• pointing out that someone is cranky only makes them crankier
  
• many fine wines are grown and made in the washington state appellations
  
• when huge trees blow into the ocean, they wash up on northern coast beaches as gigantic 'drift logs'
  
• snoring people snore much more and louder when they are drunk
  
• there is a meteorological phenomenon affecting the tip of the olympic peninsula known as 'the blue hole'
  
• everyone looks sexy on a beach under a full moon
  
• Sean Penn is a great f*cking actor
  
• engaging in political discussion with a staunch ideological conservative only entrenches my naturally liberal views
  
• i'd like to buy the world a New York Times