The city slogan, “Keep Portland Weird”, is more than just a quirky saying. From what we have seen, it’s a way of life. However that is exactly what makes this city so charming. Portland has been recommended to us by many people that must know our travel style. We are living in a flat built in a garage that we rented through AirBnB.
The streets are designed to handle the traffic of both bicycles and cars (what’s plural for Prius? Pri-eye?). We have already rented bikes from our neighbourhood shop and get this, they were already named! I’m riding Sonny, and DawnO is mounting Dan Marino.
So far we have yet to have a bad meal. Yesterday we went to a highly recommended taqueria named, “por qué no” (why not) and it was a home run without the runs.
Today is DawnO’s birthday so we have built the day around a few of her favourite things. We started out at a coffee shop and then biked to a tennis specialty store where she got new shoes and 3 racquets on loan for her to try out.
She then proceeded to kick my sorry ass all over the public tennis court with all that new equipment.
We decided to try another critically acclaimed restaurant for her birthday dinner. This time we went for Thai Food on the main strip in our area. Here are the before and after shots:
Afterwards we went to the popular “Salt & Straw” ice cream shoppe that creates unique (aka intimidating) flavours of ice cream.
After sampling “Pear w/ Blue Cheese” and “Caramel Corn on the Cob”, I settled on the more normal “Sea Salt w/ Caramel Ribbons” + 1 squirt of hot fudge. DawnO was having a tough time deciding but after numerous samples chose “Almond Brittle w/ Salted Ganache”.