Portland, OR

Portland is friggin beautiful. I love this city. Everywhere you go it's just so pretty everywhere and it takes your breath away. The air smells so good too. Not only pinetrees, but most places it smelled like a greenhouse. The air was perfumed like incense in some places even, I swear!

Anyways, we drove to the Pacific Ocean finally and it was BREATHTAKING. WAY prettier than I could have imagined! We went and saw a lighthouse and where the Columbia enters the Pacific (where Louis and Clark finally hit the Pacific actually) We crossed over into Washington State a few times too actually. We visited these tunnels under the city of Portland where people would get Shanghai'ed (kidnapped) and put on ships for a few years. Pretty shady shit. We even saw an old opium den that was underneath of a bar. Crazy shit... Only thing that sucks is that I forgot that my friend Art Ninja lives in Portland... I knew it was that part of the country but for some reason I have always confused Colorado and Oregon... DAMN MY FEEBLE MIND! = ) BTW, The guy in the photos that is NOT me is our friend Polock, AKA Mike "Gump" Rickouwskallalastickallyskibidibi who JUST HAPPENED to email me the night before we took off that he was visiting his sister there and was having a great time! We called him up and met him out there. He used to live there (He now lives in Boston) and he showed us around and made the trip even better! ... Well, here's the photos:







Opium Den...



Astoria, OR where GOONIES was filmed.













Haystack rock from about a mile away...



A closeup...



Stacie and Polock holding up a huge Sitka fir root...



My beautiful wifey.... = )



Tennessee again next week. Maybe we will have more awesome mountain pictures for you to peruse then too...