So here's where I am:
As for the memory I will share this week, I must confess that it didn't happen in Tanner, Washington. I wasn't planning on memories from each town I'm "in", just the state. I believe it was the same time as the last memory I shared. I went with my friend, Ben, to one of his friend's house to watch a movie. Now, when you go to a friends house and pop in a DVD, that's not really watching a movie, that's just watching moving pictures on your TV. This friend of Ben's had a downstairs movie theatre, not an entertainment room. There was a little lobby area decked out with movie posters in those lit-up frames. They had a concession stand complete with a full size popcorn machine. They even had a ticket booth! You go through the double swinging doors (with little round windows) into a slanted room with a projector and screen. The only difference here was that instead of those uncomfortable movie seats they had Lay-Z-Boy leather chairs. What made it even better was that this was a time before DVD's, you know we still popped in those rectangular plastic nuisances to watch a show. But even here they one-upped anything I had done: they had laser-disc! Of course this must have been within the 6 months that laser-discs were considered cool. For those who don't know what those are they look like DVD's but are the size of old records (like 12 inches across). They even had the illuminated lines on the ground so you knew how to get to the exit. Now that was a theater experience.
As you can see I still have a ways before I'm out of Washington, but don't worry, there are plenty more memories to come. As for the big picture, well, here it is:
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