Day 2: Portland

What we failed to notice last night was that there were train tracks running pretty much right through camp. Every forty minutes or so, a train would come blaring through, horn blasting. We didn't get much sleep last night. But we got ourselves some breakfast and went on our way.

We went and viewed Multnomah Falls, the second tallest in the US, and Horsetail Falls, which was just pretty. We hiked around the trails for a while, and then it was time for a vegan donut at Sweetpea Bakery in Portland, Or.

Or that was the plan anyway. Lee (the GPS, which will from now on only be referred to as Lee), got us lost, and we ended up at Oaks Pioneer Park down by the river. Where apparently Portlanders can't read, because below the sign stating "No Fishing", there were five men sitting on the dock with poles in the water. We tried to get a good picture of it, but they just didn't turn out.

But by now we hungry, so it was back in the car and looking for one of the many places that had been recommended to me. Lee was still having trouble, so after driving for a half hour to try and find a parking spot, we set out on our own in search of food. We eventually ran into Paragon, which was on my list as a vegan friendly restaurant, so we went in. Well, it wasn't too vegan friendly, but we both had the Organic Quinoa Salad with asparagus, cherry tomatoes, peas, basil, and a balsamic sauce. It was really good, and very filling.

After lunch we wandered around until we came to a park with a weird elephant statue and a permanent doggy water fountain. We wandered around lost for a little longer before coming across The Blossuming Lotus (where we were trying to go when we ended up at Paragon). They didn't have any vegan soft serve ice cream left, so we went on our way and ended up at Whole Foods. We got a couple of donuts from Mighty-O, and a slushie.

Tired and disappointed from our lack of ability to find anything we had wanted to see, we headed back to camp, and stopped at the Bridge of the Gods, which is apparently just a bridge that they built where they think there was once a giant landslide that created a bridge for the Native Americans to walk across.

Tomorrow we drive to Seattle and explore Olympia and Tacoma along the way. Hopefully we'll get a better sleep than we did last night.