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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Day 24

 Day 24: 6/10/15 (Portland)
22 miles

IT’S JILLIAN’S BIRTHDAY!!!!

Jillian’s mom called at 7:30am to wish her a happy birthday, but we were most definitely still sound asleep so after a few grumbled words we were back to bed.  Judging by the way we slept in, you would think we’d been camping for the last week.  Eventually we were showered and ready to hit the town.  Guided by our stomachs, we stumbled upon some food trucks and decided on The Grilled Cheese Grill where we had a grilled cheese sandwich with avocado, red peppers, and red onion.  We ate on the way to Voodoo Doughnuts, a shop that was recommended by our friend Drew back home, and more recently by Alli in Seattle.  Drew wanted us to bring him back a doughnut, but we weren’t sure it would make it.  When we reached the shop, the line was out the door and down the block so we decided we’d come back later – it’s open 24 hours so we knew time wouldn’t be an issue.  We went into a random hotel to find a walking map since we didn’t want another wandering repeat like in Seattle.  We also picked up a restaurant guide which led us to the Rock Bottom Brewery for a quick beer.  When we left we headed back to Voodoo since we were still in the area, and just like that, there was hardly a line.  We ended up ordering the McMinnville which was a maple frosted filled doughnut, the Captain my Captain which was a regular doughnut topped with Captain Crunch Berry cereal, and the Memphis Mafia doughnut which was like a big fritter topped with bananas, cinnamon, peanut butter, chocolate, peanuts, and a chocolate chips (we saved this one for later).




 Once we dropped the doughnut off in the car, we went to Jake’s Crawfish for the rest of happy hour.  They’re known for their seafood, but we didn’t end up trying any – oops.  We got a few apps and some wine to start, then Jillian got a pomegranate mojito and Rico got a pisco sour (brandy sour).  Once we were full and liquored up, we walked over to Powell’s bookstore which is the largest new and used book store in the world.  There are several rooms within the store categorized for different genres of books.  Rico selected a prison escape story and a novel that takes place on the sea.  Jillian picked two crime/mystery novels, one which is written by J.K. Rowling under a pseudonym.  We brought the books to the car and tried to figure out what we wanted to do the rest of the night.  Jillian spotted a cupcake store and we were on our way.  She picked out a hazelnut cupcake with a raspberry filling and raspberry frosting.  As we sat outside the bakery, Jillian called home and talked with her parents a bit.  We’re pretty sure Jillian’s dad misses us both, though his biggest thing was asking how hairy we were.  We’re pretty sure he was disappointed to hear that we’ve been showering and shaving.  Other than that, it seems that everyone at home is doing well and having fun. 





We ended up at Bridgeport Brewery for one last drink and a bite to eat.  At this point we realized how much we had eaten and that there was no way we could eat anything else – except ice cream!  On the way home we stopped at Salt & Straw which is a homemade ice cream shop with very unique flavors.  They were featuring a few flavors from some of the food trucks around town so of course we tried them.  We had olive oil, lingonberry and goat’s milk, freckled chocolate, and poutine.  The olive oil and poutine were by far the strangest just because they weren’t sweet flavors.  The poutine tasted like a salty/cheesy ice cream with gravy swirled in – so strange.  During the day, we had been looking up food trucks trying to select the ones we wanted to try and Jillian found a hotdog cart close to where we were staying.  The truck was also close to Salt & Straw so we walked down, but they were already closed.  We went home and collapsed into a food coma. 



Fact:
The only way to fully embrace Portland is with an empty stomach

Lesson:
As enticing as it may be, and as daring as you may want to be, the weird flavors aren’t always the  good flavors


Eat Well; Travel Often
Rico & Jillian

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