10 Photos from Portland
Rand and I spent a few days in Portland last week. As we always do, we talked about what it would be like it we lived there. It’s a silly little fantasy brought on by too much good food and time spent with friends who are just slightly too cool for us. I imagine the tattoos I’d get if we moved to PDX (something to do with old-timey astronomical navigation charts), and the flannel shirts I’d buy. For just a second, I imagine the person I’d be if I moved to Portland.
And I realize, she’s way too cool for me.
So while relocating there won’t happen anytime soon, I can hold my own for at least a few days. Want proof? Here’s 10 photos from our last trip down.
- Portland from afar.
Not pictured: me, freezing my butt off.
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- The city in a nutshell. A pesticide-free, sustainably-farmed nutshell.
We might have started laughing hysterically when we saw this.
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- Child with torpedo (from my visit to the OMSI – more on that next week).
This looks totally sci-fi, right?
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- Mural outside an indie video rental store, Portland’s east side.
As though there's any other kind of video store in Portland besides indie.
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- Aebleskiver (Danish pancakes) from Broder, with lemon curd and lingonberry jam.
I may have bit my own finger while shoving these into my mouth in a mad frenzy. I admit nothing.
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- Collection of fans at an antique store on the east side.
$55 for an old appliance with faulty wiring that's probably a HUGE fire hazard? Sure. Whatever gives me street cred. Not that I care.
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- Homemade pop-a-shot game, Spirit of 77 bar.
Because regular pop-a-shot games are just too mainstream, apparently.
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- Faking a septum piercing so I can better fit in.
What amazes me is how well it worked.
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- Lunch at Pok Pok, at the recommendation of the brilliant Jessica from WhyGoItaly.
She is wise, wise woman.
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- The “doctor” is in: perusing old x-rays at the antique store.
He has a promising future with the TSA.
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