Portland, Oregon – A small big city.

I thoroughly enjoyed my stay in Portland. Aleksey and I spent the vast majority of our time inside the “Pearl District,” a small collection of streets in the north western section of downtown Portland. The city has the most restaurants and microbreweries per capita in the United States. For lunch we decided to eat at a health conscious restaurant at the edge of the Pearl District, where Aleksey quickly ordered a grilled hamburger. The food was excellent, and not too expensive. Later in the day we visited one of the many microbreweries and had a beer each (I had a brown ale that was OK, and Aleksey had the “Russian River Damnation” which he thinks was SO-SO). Off to Seattle, Washington.