Day 59 - It's Not Being Green

All I knew about Portland, OR before going there was that there were a good amount of trees, it is kind of a young city, and there is a huge park there.

I later learned that the park in Portland is the largest urban park in the country…even bigger then Central Park in New York City. The first thing that we did was head to the park. We started walking around and shortly realized that once again, it was the off season. What I mean by this is that all the flowers in the Rose Garden were not there. There were a couple of flowers that were in bloom and very pretty. Even though it was disappointing not to see a lot of flowers, the fact that the park was the greenest I had ever seen made up for it. We walked around the park for a bit and found a trail and decided to just walk it, even though we didn’t know where it went. On the trail we were surrounded by trees and the environment seemed surreal.

Online we discovered that there is a bookstore worth visiting when you visit the city of Portland. I know, I know, this is very unlike me! Going to a bookstore to sightsee! Well I was skeptical at first but once walking into the front doors I could see why people put this on there things to do. It was a privately owned bookstore that consisted of the entire city block that it sat on. There were so many rooms to walk in and so many different types of books. I ended up going to there second location across the street to look at their math section. I hate to sound like a nerd but I resisted to only buying two math books. There were a lot more that I had never heard of that really grabbed by interest. This was definitely the coolest bookstore I had been to in a while. There was a lot of character in this bookstore that no Barnes and Noble could ever match up to.

Well the trip to Portland was only a day trip and we were off to Seattle, WA to see what all the fuss was about.

For some reason though, I was really hankering for some coffee.

Aramis

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