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| Portland sign |
I'm not a city person, never have been. Suburbs & the Pacific ocean for most of my life except a 13 year vacation in the upper mid-west. The last few weeks I've been in the Portland area, still in a suburb but I have actually gone into Portland 'just for fun' several times.
Heck of a public transportation system!
Back packs are the thing & cars2go (smart cars) are everywhere
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| Two Cars2go |
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| Another Car2go parked around the corner |
Bikes, personal shopping carts & dogs on the train. Is it really a train? It's powered by overhead electric lines, runs on tracks and stops at stations.... the computer voice does not say "all aboarrrrrd!"
Beggars, more than I'm used to. My friend said the saying is "Portland is where the 18 year olds go to retire", sometimes it looks like that....
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| Street people on bicycles & cops on horseback |
They have a fine Saturday market, I have not been to it this year yet, I was doing something else or it was raining. Shopping I can do in the rain, browsing requires good weather.
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| Saturday Market sign |
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| This by where the Sat market happens |
Food carts, taco trucks... there are all kinds of names for them. They have places to gather
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| A food truck court, one of many |
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| MMMMM good! |
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| Living on the Willamette river | |
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| The other side |
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| Downtown power |
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| Cherry blossoms |
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| Esplanade? I though that was a Spanish word |
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| Segways on the esplanade, LOTs of runners too |
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| Bridges are for walking too |
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| Bridges |
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| More bridges |
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| In the park along the Willamette river |
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| RV's parked in the back yard |
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| Mount Hood |
I'm hoping to be back on the road next month. The plan is to be a tourist rather than a worker... we'll see
That may be a nice city and all, but it is still a city and I try to stay out of them. I have been a country boy since I was born and always will be. Thanks for the post, anyway. It gives me a peek at where the city people live.
ReplyDeleteI've stayed away from cities unless I had a reason to go there, this time was different.
DeleteI went to just walk around and stare at the stuff & the people, a different kind of entertainment for me!
Part of what I'm doing really should be different.
Thanks for visiting!