{"id":1065,"date":"2017-04-09T19:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:18:51","slug":"travels-with-caroline-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Travels With Caroline &#8211; Part !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, Oregon. \u00c2\u00a0Not a particularly beautiful city, at least the downtown portion thereof. \u00c2\u00a0Caroline and I spent an evening and a full day in Portland. \u00c2\u00a0The first stop, the absolute required first stop, was Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bookstore, the City of Books. \u00c2\u00a0Probably the best bookstore I have seen, and I have seen a few. \u00c2\u00a0We spent a couple of hours there, then walked around a bit before having dinner at Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bistro and Bar. \u00c2\u00a0An excellent restaurant. \u00c2\u00a0The weather was standard fare for the Pacific Northwest this time of year, drizzling and chilly.<\/p>\n<p>Portland has a superb mass transit system, trains, streetcars and buses. \u00c2\u00a0Very easy to get around the city. \u00c2\u00a0Also, there is an arial tram going from the street level to the OHSU Hospital Complex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"speaks for itself.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ispeaks-for-itself.jpg\" alt=\"Speaks for itself\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"from the tram.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ifrom-the-tram.jpg\" alt=\"From the tram\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"portland arial tram.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Iportland-arial-tram.jpg\" alt=\"Portland arial tram\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some random shots from above:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"angles and dangles.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Iangles-and-dangles.jpg\" alt=\"Angles and dangles\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"angles and dangles 2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Iangles-and-dangles-2.jpg\" alt=\"Angles and dangles 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"looking down from OHSU.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ilooking-down-from-OHSU.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down from OHSU\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You ca see Mt. Hood just right of center in the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"looking down from OHSU #2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ilooking-down-from-OHSU-2.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down from OHSU 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Caroline from top.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ICaroline-from-top.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline from top\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some shots from around downtown Portland:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ringside park.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Iringside-park.jpg\" alt=\"Ringside park\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food Truck row<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"food trucks.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ifood-trucks.jpg\" alt=\"Food trucks\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"mexican food and ragtime.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Imexican-food-and-ragtime.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican food and ragtime\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best bookstore I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen, at least recently. \u00c2\u00a0Luckily they ship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Powell's Books.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IPowells-Books.jpg\" alt=\"Powell s Books\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We walked a lot in Portland, and also rode the trains and street cars. \u00c2\u00a0Ate some really good meals, and probably didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spend $60 total for the full day in the city. \u00c2\u00a0We only had the one full day there, and left the next morning for the Columbia River Gorge, then down the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, Oregon. \u00c2\u00a0Not a particularly beautiful city, at least the downtown portion thereof. \u00c2\u00a0Caroline and I spent an evening and a full day in Portland. \u00c2\u00a0The first stop, the absolute required first stop, was Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bookstore, the City of Books. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=1065\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}