The working day at the Dotter finished a bit earlier yesterday, and my jetlag is beginning to wear off a little, so after work I got on the free street car and headed north into downtown Portland.
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| The Portland streetcar |
Portland is fairly compact as American cities go and once you're downtown it's easy to get around on foot. I walked through the old town and Chinatown where I had Thai food "a-la-cart" at one of the numerous food carts which fill any empty parking lot. Then I walked into the cultural district where I watched a bit of live jazz in the street outside the art museum.
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| Eating "a la cart" in Portland - a massive Thai meal for $5 |
Shopping in Portland is fairly quirky. I was looking for a big music and video shop to buy a couple of DVDs but instead I found off-the-wall art shops, second hand book shops and little independent coffee shops, restaurants and micro-brewery bars.
Portland also has it's fair share of random weirdness boasting several small museums including the hat and vacuum cleaner museums. I saw lots of cars with the "Keep Portland Weird" bumper sticker, and this pretty well sums ups this side of Portland life.
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