Astoria with the Goonies. (Prime Cuts).IT was a typical rainy day in Portland when, while cleaning out the basement, we found a treasure map A treasure map is a variation of a map to mark the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale . More common in fiction than in reality, "Pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for . Following the directions on the map, we took highway 26 west to the 101, which took us north for about 30 miles. Then we took a right onto highway 202 for a few blocks to the Dairy Queen Dairy Queen (also known as DQ) is an ice-cream shop and fast-food restaurant franchise based in the United States and founded in 1940. For many years the franchise's slogan was "We treat you right!" In recent years, it has been changed to "DQ something different. . At the Dairy Queen we took a left and went up the hill, where we found the pirate ship once captained by One Eyed Willie. Here there was a buried treasure buried treasure - A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. to be found. The ship was the largest one in the area, much taller than any of the ships we had found before. There was a secret cave nearby, and Ryan grinded Smith over it. Danger did the Truffle truffle (trŭf`əl) [Fr.], subterranean edible fungus that forms a mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationship with the roots of certain trees and plants. The part of the fungus used as food is the ascoma, the fruiting body of the fungus. Shuffle on the deck while the rest of us searched for treasure. That's when One Eyed Willie showed up. One Eyed Willie chased us around the ship for hours, telling us to put our helmets on. We informed him that some Goonies had stolen our helmets the previous day. That was when a whole crew of fully-padded skate skate, fish: see ray. skate Any of nine genera (suborder Rajoidea) of rounded to diamond-shaped rays. These bottom-dwellers are found from tropical to near-Arctic waters and from the shallows to depths of more than 9,000 ft (2,700 m). Goonies arrived, also in search of the buried treasure. The race was on. We thought that we had an advantage (being older and wiser), but they had some tactics of their own--like blocking off certain parts of the ship by standing on the edge of the deck. They were persistent in their search. As the saying goes, "Goonies never say die." But we will return. |
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