From Crater Lake we headed north to Portland, hitting town about 9:30 on a Friday night, and a Friday night gone mad with 4th of July fireworks.
With some effort, we navigated Portland's downtown streets (e.g. three lane road...two lanes for buses only...whoops the car lane ended! turn left now!), found a dumpy motel, and caught a fun meal at a great Greek place.
The next day, we allowed ourselves to be trapped in Powell's Books, which is the most amazing bookstore(s) I have ever seen. We escaped with only three cookbooks (one, Vegan Planet, is probably becoming my favorite cookbook), a book on Vietnamese slang, and a great one on computational linguistics. Several of them were used, so we didn't feel too bad.
We also wandered around Chinatown and the Pearl District (warehouses to lofts kind of thing), and all in all noticed that Portland is damn cool when it's not raining, and property there is sooooo cheap! Must start real estate empire now! Haha.
Miles: 1724
(Written 14 Jul)
Posted by yozhik at July 5, 2003 01:59 AM