Monday, June 07, 2010

Keep Portland Weird

I've seen these shirts on various poeple wandering around the world and have wondered, keep Portland weird, huh? What makes Portland so weird? I discovered what makes it "weird" this last week when we inadvertantly spent an afternoon in Portland while waiting out the rain.


Spend the an hour or two in Powell Books. It is an entire block of old buildings, interior ripped out, now a huge book store with discount books. If Amazon was a physical bookstore, this would be it. Portlanders drink coffee, check e-mail, and read away the afternoon in its windows.



Have a donut at VooDoo Donuts. I'm sure there is somebody you can think of who needs to have their head bitten off! jk :)


Try on vintage clothing at any number of second-hand stores on East Burnside before catching a dollar movie at:

The LaurelHurst Theatre where you can buy wine and vegan pizza to snack on while catching a flick! Suprisingly, the dollar movie and wine is very, very hip in Portland. It seemed oddly appopriate that we watched Alice in Wonderland.


Yes, Portland is a little weird, but also kind of oddly fun.

5 comments:

Missy said...

Looks like an excellent time in Wonderland. :)

Duludes said...

What where you doing in Portland? Was just this a fun little get away?

Unknown said...

We were supposed to be camping on the Oregon Coast, but there was a huge rain storm for a few days so we stayed instead at my friend's brother's house in Portland.

WalkConkies said...

Sounds almost as fun as camping on the coast?!? I haven't seen that movie yet, but you're right - Portland is probably a better place to see it! Glad you made the most of the rain and made some fun memories for us to scrap!

Reece and Caitlin said...

Looks like a super fun trip! That book store would be way fun to walk around in for a while!