We about ready to check out of our hotel and walk the two short blocks to Portland’s Max light rail, where $1.40 cents apiece gets us right to the airport for our flight home.

We’ve been getting cat photos from our cat sitter, and we’re looking forward to being greeted by lonely when we arrive home this evening.

The very slow recovery of downtown Portland is illustrated by a new business on the corner of SW Broadway and Alder, just a half block from our hotel, where the former location of Public Domain Coffee has been sitting boarded up for more than three years. A new business has scheduled a grand opening for tomorrow, June 6. Many large street level commercial spaces are still empty, but smaller businesses are moving in other locations, giving at least a sense of progress.