By the time this is posted on Sunday morning, we’ll hopefully be on a plane making our way back to Hawaii after a week in Portland, Oregon.
It was hot, at or near 90 degrees all week.
But Portland is a great city to visit, with a top transit system, lots of good food and drink, a wonderful art museum, perhaps the country’s best bookstore, and lots more.
I’ll share a few views here. Perhaps more later.
Top: Sunrise along the Willamette River, where a riverfront park stretches along the river through downtown Portland.
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Portland is one of the most-praised cities in contemporary America. But is the hype real? To some extent, it actually understates the case.
Portland didn’t invent bicycles, density or light rail — but it understood the future implications of them for America’s smaller cities first, and put that knowledge to use before anyone else. The longest journey begins with a step, but you have to take it. Nobody else did. In an era where most American cities went one direction, Portland went another, either capturing or even creating the zeitgeist of a new age.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/01/picture-perfect_portland.html
Great photos, Ian! Powell’s forever!
Powell’s is fantastic!
And very crowded, too!