So far I have watched a movie “Blood Diamond” which is 2 ¼ hours (great movie); taken a nap for 1 ½ hours; I’ve been listening to music over half an hour. This trip just seems to get longer each week. This week I will be on the plane a total of 5 ¾ hours. I am looking at the moving map and we are still over Montana and 1 ½ hours from touch down.
I have brought my scout “Stefan” to find new areas of the Portland area for me to explore. As I wrote last week he goes out and finds all the neatest things and then takes me to see them. This is his first trip to the Pacific Northwest. The weather is going to be chilly and wet the first few days and clear the last few days. So he’ll get the whole Portland experience. I hope he gets to go see some of the cool bridges from Jackie’s blog.
I let him have my favorite seat (1A) I talked about in a past blog. He will be on the side of the plane that has the best view of Mount Hood when we arrive in Portland. I took his seat (my second favorite – Exit Row Window). There is nobody in the middle seat so I have been able to sprawl out more than in a first class seat and with fewer distractions from the flight attendants offering me another beverage. I know they mean well but my bladder is only so big.
This week will be one of the few weeks that I don’t go home to see some new project completed at the house. A few weeks back I came home to see the new fireplace that Stefan built in the downstairs den area.The remodel really started as moving a door and has morphed into a complete updating of the house (kitchen, floors, bathrooms, laundry room, pouring a concrete driveway, moving walls in the basement to make more rooms). Least to say the cost and time under construction has exceeded what the initial plans were. I know it’s going to be worth it when it’s over. Right now I’m just wondering if it will ever be over. I figure we will be under construction at least another 6-9 months because I’m on the pay as you go plan.
4 comments:
I love Portland! I like antiques, so it was the perfect playground for me! (Aurora, Sellwood, Multnomah) One of my favorites restaurants was Beaches on the Vancouver side of the Columbia River. If Stefan likes old houses, tour the old Pittock Mansion. It's amazing! Drive out to Multnomah Falls and eat at Edgefield in Troutdale on the way back (it's one of those McMenamin's restaurant/hotel properties). Sounds like a blast (excluding the long plane ride)!
Funny you mentioned Mulnomah. We hiked to the top of the falls yesterday after we got here. I know right where Beaches is in Vancouver.
I am going to give all these things to Stefan to explore this week. I bet he will want to see that Pittock Mansion, he loves old houses and antiques.
Thanks for the travel tips!
I flew home from Boise yesterday and had a fantastic clear view of the Three Sisters, Mt. Jefferson and MT. Hood right smack out my window. I was in the aisle seat and the little old man next to me was sound asleep so I couldn't take any good photos. But it was beautiful, lots of snow on the mountain.
We flew out yesterday morning and it was so clear, it was too early to take pictures (not enough light). I bet you had a great view.
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