The plan for today was mainly to drive to Portland to meet up with Catherine, Beth’s good friend from Denison. Being on a road trip and having the freedom to take stupid detours, we drove well out of our way in the morning to a little town in far Northwestern Oregon called Astoria. For those of you born in the Eighties, you might remember this as the town that the film Goonies took place in. After finding the house where the movie started and taking a cheesy picture in front, we were en route to Portland.
Catherine took us down to the art/hipster neighborhood around Mississippi Street for more local beer and amazing pizza. The three of us and Oso wandered around the neighborhood for a while checking out a few shops including this ingenious store filled with old/used building materials ranging from toilets and tiles to old wood doors and recycled lumber. Luckily our car was too full for Robbie to fill it up with some unneeded “junk”. That night, we both took some much-needed showers and rode our bikes down to Mississippi again to a Mexican cantina Catherine was raving about. We got some dangerously strong margaritas and wonderful tacos before bar hopping the rest of the night around that area. At the end of the day, we both agreed that Portland would not be too bad of a city to live in (but do not worry, we are still on our way back to Colorado). Now bedtime (literally this time… in an actual bed).
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