Beauty to Boomer's

Drive from Burlington, Washington and you will be treated to flat farmland surrounded by majestic mountains, some capped with snow. The city of Bow has two cafe’s, if you take Bow-Edison Road for a mile, you will come to Edison that has a bakery (awesome) and a saloon, there used to be another café there but it is boarded up. Continue on Chuckanut Dr. and you will love the view, all the way to Bellingham; lucky people in homes with views to die for, high on a cliff overlooking Bellingham Bay all the way to emerald islands called the San Juans (they must have barrowed the name from California). We were driving down a street connecting a few waterfront homes when three deer posed for us alongside the road; these were bucks with large sets of antlers. I want to live here!
After we got our Trader Joe’s fix we went to Boomer’s, an institution here in Bellingham. Their combo is a cheese burger, waffle fries and a milk shake. CB and I both got combos with root-beer shakes. Suddenly we were teenagers again, hanging out at Mel’s; we hadn’t had root-beer shakes in forty years.