Now Honey...: June 2011

I took a first class flight, to meet Mark in Portland on Wednesday (6/1/11). We went to the Deschutes brewery and their beers are the bomb. My favorite was the 31-25. It was a combination of a Hefeweizen and a Pale Ale. They're still tweaking it and I can't wait until it's bottled. We checked out Henry's Tavern and they had about 100 beers on tap, but other than that it was only ok. This first day required a nap after all the beers. We headed out to dinner Jakes for happy hour and dinner and then the awesome Driftwood Bar that was in the Hotel Deluxe bar. They have a fine black and blue.

Mark had to work on Thursday. So, I spent a few hours in Powell's bookstore, did some light shopping in the Pearl District and took a nap. I didn't even have a beer until almost 5. We walked down to Bailey's tap room for some great brews. We ordered food from a little Mexican restaurant that delivers to Baileys. I'm not sure who was to blame, but we kept ordering more beers. They have a great trippel there that's over 8% alcohol and I had two of those to top the night off. I don't remember walking home, but I don't think I missed anything. Mark claims that once we got back to the room I kept making all these groaning sounds, like I was trying to die. I can confirm I woke up to many strange noises coming from the toilet area at various hours of the night.

On Friday, we went to The Stepping Stone for breakfast. This place was on Man Vs. Food for their pancakes. Neither of us had the pancakes. Although, I wish I would have. We drove up to Mt. Hood and Timberline Lodge and that took most of the day. Once back in Portland, we headed over to Amnesia Brewery and I checked out some cool little shops on Mississippi Ave. We were both beat and headed back to the hotel for a light dinner and drinks.

Most memorable quote, "It's just poopy man." This comment was made by a homeless dude when Mark told me to watch where I stepped.

Strangest Fact, I had no idea that Oregon is almost 90% white. I mentioned to Mark that I had only seen four African Americans in three days. Weird.

Common knowledge-Portland is very green and I don't just mean environmentally. Everywhere you look there is beautiful landscape, tall trees, moss growing everywhere, things in bloom all over the place. It was beautiful. The weather was in the 50's-60's on Wed. and Thursday and would have sporadic rainfall. Friday it was sunny and no rain.

No surprise-Most people appeared pretty healthy and fit. The only two morbidly obese people we saw were both on our flight back to DFW. One of them rode a scooter down to the plane and I'm not sure how the other one made it down here. Very sad.