Day 17 May 30 Portland

We went to the market this morning, found it easily, surprisingly enough!
Lots of stalls and food, We had lunch there but not at the ones with the sewage plant behind them.[It is closed now, thankfully.]
Later we explored the city, not easy to navigate , it's divided by rivers and connected by many bridges, the overpasses look like something from the Jetsons.
The transit trains share some streets with cars, you need to be careful that you don't turn up a street that is transit only! No, I didn't do it.

On the way back we took Mickey for a run at a dog park, good for him to run off some energy.
We drove east past our rv park along the Columbia river, very busy with boat traffic, barges, ski boats and sailboats everywhere.

We came back and got ready to go out for my birthday dinner. We went to a Mexican place the rv park manager recommended.
Food was just ok, place was a bit of a dive, people playing video lottery in the corner.

Tomorrow we leave for home. It's a 5 or 6 hr drive, we may make it back in a day, if we don't get tired of driving.

We've met some interesting people down here,a few have said that they would never go to Canada because they couldn't take their guns but they have heard it's a nice place with free healthcare.

We'll be glad to get something decent on the radio. In Oregon it's Christian or country or if your lucky, 60's hard rock.
Today we heard the dj say that the song being played had gone gold in Canada, but since the population was so small compared to the US that it only took 10 Eskimos listening to get a gold record. Heartwarming!