Friday, August 20, 2010

Why we like Portland

The drive north has been beautiful, lush green, lots of flowers, misty foggy mornings, tons of bikers touring south.

We went to Tillamook! And ate some cheese and saw the cheese production line.


Portland has lots of breweries, lots of bicycles, lots of bridges, lots of nice people and lots of food.

We moved from the Walmart parking lot to a park to have our breakfast. We were very close to being under a bridge at this particular park but we are not at that point yet.

The 8th floor of a parking garage is where we set up base camp for the day then we jumped on the bikes, rode down the spiral ramp and shot out onto the streets of Portland. There is the ginormous Powell's City of Books which is basically one city block of books and requires a map to navigate. There are parking lots full of food trucks of every kind. There's a forest park in the city.

We visited the Lucky Labrador Brewery, had a beer then took a bottle to go and proceeded to cruise and look at stuff and things and whatever...I guess we didn't do all that much but we definitely give Portland the thumbs up.

We're going to head to Mt. Taber and the international rose test garden before we start north toward Washington this evening.

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