The Tacoma Time Machine

We left home Saturday morning to drive down South across the border to Tacoma to visit the Vintage Motorcycle Show co-sponsored by the famous ACE CAFE London.

Below Tacoma Downdown as seen from our Hotel window. The weather greeted us with balmy temperatures and clear blue skies.

We got to hook up with a certain vegan motorcycling blogging couple (Brad and Brandy), and had excellent lunch at Quickie Too, a vegan restaurant with a Jamaican twist before we joined the crowds at the exhibition.

The show was fairly small yet offered a lot to drool over. I will let the pictures do the talk. Feel free to pick a favourite. Honestly, I had a hard time making my choice.

It probably doesn't come to anybody's surprise that I am somewhat partial to British bikes. Norton, Vincent, BSA, and Triumph.

Roland standing beside a similar model of the first motorcycle I rode pillion on. The back story can be found here.

And more pics: I couldn't decide which photos to select for the blog, so I had to post them all. Sorry for that.

Roland was particularly interested in a Goggo scooter. We knew the Goggomobil (my aunt had one back in the days) which is an ugly micro car built in the Sixties but we didn't know that they built pretty scooters, too.

 This Lammy is beautiful.

After getting enough two-wheeled infusion we visited the LeMay Museum which was generously included in the cost of the ticket for the motorcycle show.

Back in the days when American cars were pretty...

We found an impressive selection of cars. Most of them American... hence the name 'America's Car Museum'.

And these extra-continental exhibits made our visit more than worthwhile: A Karmann, an Isetta and a Vespa.

 And look, there is a Lammy, too.

 A Messerschmitt and a Citroen 2CV.

If you are in the area, please visit the LeMay Museum. It is well worth the stop in Tacoma.

Overwhelmed by all those two or more wheeled pretty shiny things, we headed back to the hotel (a five minute walk), took a a power nap and went out for Vietnamese Dinner at Pho 701 after.

The downtown architecture was quite interesting, alas the light was fading, and we were hungry, hence didn't pay much attention anymore. Food became priority number one.

Saving the best for last ;-) Food Porn!

All vegan lunch at Quickie Too:

and all vegan dinner at Pho 701:

Except for Roland's dish which was a chicken something.

It was a dinner with a pleasant surprise: The chef had been sick that evening, hence the sous chef prepared the meals. As the food presentation didn't turn out to the manager's quality standards he decided to give us our dishes free of charge. We were flabergasted because we couldn't find anything wrong with it. As a matter of fact it was delicious, and we wanted to pay the bill but he didn't want our money.

A wonderful day came to an end, and we regretted that it was only a short weekend of a get-together with our friends from Oregon.

We met again in the morning, planning to have Vegan/Veggie breakfast at a place we found on the net, however when we got there we found the Caffe Dei closed, and it didn't look like it was still in business. So, plan B came to pass: a Starbucks around the corner. Time flew by as we chatted about this and that, and way too soon we had to part, but not without the promise to meet again some time soon. Thank you guys, for a wonderful 'couple weekend'.