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Our first order of business on
Wednesday
We had flown to Portland the day before, paying the
airline's steep fee for the bikes, which we had packed in
cardboard boxes. The airline failed to get Rick's bike on
the connecting flight, but delivered it to the guesthouse
late that night.was to assemble our bikes, in the basement of the Bluebird Guesthouse. .
Meanwhile, we walked around the
Division/Clinton neighborhood
(Clinton Street is a bike/pedestrian-friendly Neighborhood Greenway) and ate at the Nightlight Lounge.
We descended through Hoyt Arboretum and the Japanese Garden and the Rose Gardens, where we had walked on a previous visit (after a Columbia River Gorge bike trip). Flashback: Rose Gardens,
2008
![]() and followed the Eastbank Esplanade. We're not used to urban riding among this many cyclists of all varieties! |
the Portland by Bicycle map, the Southeast Portland Bike/Walk Map and the book "75 Classic Rides Oregon" by Jim Moore.
![]() Downtown, we grazed at the Portland Farmers Market at Shemanski Park. We sampled peaches, tomatoes, goat cheese, gluten-free desserts and more, and bought fresh salads and grilled corn on the cob. . We biked up to Council Crest Park. We didn't realize we were heading for the highest point in Portland, at 1,073 feet above sea level. ![]() From Council Crest, you can see Mount Hood (zoom view below), Mount Adams, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Rainier. ![]()
Back on the east side of the river, we took the Eastbank Esplanade along the waterfront and then a bit of the Springwater bike trail, south to Sellwood. We turned back north on city streets and hit the Moreland Farmers Market for another peach. ![]() I had to pose at the sign for Tolman Street. . We got back to Clinton/Division near dusk and ate at a sidewalk table at a Japanese noodle bar called Wafu. ![]() |
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