Saturday November 19, 2005

Concrete, WA

Name aside, perhaps not a hard place to live at all. You can visit the town web site for some photos and history. And ponder the reasoning behind the town's series of names since 1871: Minnehaha, Baker, Cement City, and, as of 1909, Concrete.

While I was fueling up at the local gas station, another car pulled in for gas. Amazingly, the car was absolutely out of fuel---the driver could not get the car restarted once he'd stopped. He was trying to start the car because he'd pulled in with the pump on the wrong side, away from his fuel cap. Bummer.

Maybe Concrete is a hard place after all.