Portland, OR

Pioneer Square

So after an incredible day, I pulled into Portland. Tired and hungry, I was pretty happy to arrive at the hotel. So I am not sure if I have talked much about where I have been staying but Hotwire.com is the jam. I basically book rooms day by day, and since I have never been to most of the places I am visiting, Hotwire is great due to the fact that I can pick a price and an area of town that looks interesting and then roll the dice! I usually end up paying about $60 - $80 bucks a night for a sweet ass hotel. The only time I have not been thrilled with where I am staying was Sioux Falls… but that whole town is weird. I ended up staying at the Westin in Pioneer Square – very nice! Usually, I wake up at about 6:30 every morning and get going but for the first time on this trip I was able to sleep till 11.

Bought this sweet tee..

Portland, where do I start? Right off the bat I realized that this was a very unique place. The way the city was designed restricts it from growing outside of a certain area making a city of just under half a million seem like a thriving metropolis.

Another thing that I noticed about this city was the high number of white people I saw walking around. In fact, Portland is the 3rd whitest city in the world and 3rd safest city in the United States.

Jason & Luster

Honestly, the best thing about Portland was the amount of craft breweries. There are over 30 inside the city limits alone. On St. Patty’s day I met up with a good friend that now lives in Portland. We hopped from brewery to brewery enjoying good conversation and laughing about stories from college. Luster is one of those guys who you can go 2 or 3 years without talking to and then once you see him it seems like no time has passed at all.

Portland also has a large number of food carts. Anywhere there is an empty lot, 5-10 food carts are packed in offering anything from burritos to waffle tacos (which is a folded waffle with syrup, sausage & pecans… there are other varieties too).

Waffle Taco!

Overall Portland was a blast!