Portland Oregon

We've spent the last few days in Portland Oregon and are staying with Dan and Deb, daughter of Ruby from Ashland which has been wonderful. We're yet to meet Deb who is away at the moment but keen to catch up as she works for a union so I'm keen to hear about her experience especially as her husband, Dan tells us that companies have successfully excluded Union labour here for some time. Portland is a nice city, reasonably easy to navigate, although the one-way streets are driving us a bit nuts. We spent yesterday at the Oregon zoo and today at the science museum which was fascinating and so much fun, - lots of hands on stuff for kids and adults, we were there for hours. It's been nice and hot today, about 35 degrees celsius but we found some water fountains to play in for a while before we hired a quad bike to ride alongside the Willamette river downtown. It's been great staying here in a home rather that a hotel,tonight Dan fixed some Margaritas while we enjoyed the 1906 pianola. Ruby was very impressed with this and proclaimed that we should turn our piano into a pianola and we could be famous, having just made her way through the Stars and Stripes Sousa march.

We finally succumbed to fast food, but fast food Portland style, salad with quinoa, fennel, carrot, avocado, tofu, currants, almonds, red onion, capsicum,mint, kale and lettuce. Fantastic!  Veggie grill.com