After a few days in the mountains we headed back to the city, this time into Oregon to visit Portland. I have to say that it was not as pretty as I imagined it would be, very industrial as you come into it and the worst traffic we've hit since leaving England. Anyway we decided to head to a park and happened on their famous Rose garden.
Then, in a vague attempt to experience a little of what it is like in the city we abandoned the car in favour of a bus and headed into downtown Oregon. This was much nicer and they have some excellent public transport as well as some novel concepts for cyclists, such as bicycle shaped shells which are hinged into the pavement so that you can put your bike under one, lock it and then is can't be seen or rained on etc.. sadly no photo though.
What you can't really see in this photo is just how pink the building above and between Dan and Andy is, you also can't see just how wet the kids got a short while after this was taken.
The city was not bad, they actually have really good and fre public transport around the city center.
Then back to our hotel, which although it was out of Oregon, in Vancouver (Vancouver, Washington as opposed to the slightly more famous Vancouver a few hundred miles north) was the biggest bargain of the holiday so far as Andy found it for $48/night for the 4 of us, including breakfast, Wi-Fi, pool etc.. You can barely camp for that, and it was a really nice hotel - result.
Then, in a vague attempt to experience a little of what it is like in the city we abandoned the car in favour of a bus and headed into downtown Oregon. This was much nicer and they have some excellent public transport as well as some novel concepts for cyclists, such as bicycle shaped shells which are hinged into the pavement so that you can put your bike under one, lock it and then is can't be seen or rained on etc.. sadly no photo though.
What you can't really see in this photo is just how pink the building above and between Dan and Andy is, you also can't see just how wet the kids got a short while after this was taken.
The city was not bad, they actually have really good and fre public transport around the city center.
Then back to our hotel, which although it was out of Oregon, in Vancouver (Vancouver, Washington as opposed to the slightly more famous Vancouver a few hundred miles north) was the biggest bargain of the holiday so far as Andy found it for $48/night for the 4 of us, including breakfast, Wi-Fi, pool etc.. You can barely camp for that, and it was a really nice hotel - result.
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