alerie & I were in Oregon City to visit family, so we drove into Portland and to a few other cool places. Their house was beautiful.

View from the back porch

We drove to Tillamook to see the the Tillamook Cheese Factory, really great cheese and ice cream there, although they apparently have trouble keeping their most popular cheddar in stock. The drive was scenic, great views and  photo opportunities along the coast near there.

Portland is great — lots of cool things there like Voodoo doughnuts and shopping in the Pearl district. We stopped at Moonstruck chocolates and picked up some chocolate animals.

Can vegetarians eat these?

Also they have Powell’s, a huge book stor. I can’t even explain how big this place is, but here’s the directory;

The last thing I want to mention is Burgerville. At first it looks like any other fast food place, but the menu is amazing. There’s fresh fish, and the menu changes depending on what is in season. Strawberries were in season when we were there, so Valerie got a Strawberry and goat cheese sammich

Suprisingly it was delicious

We had a great time, and can’t wait to go back to see some of the stuff we missed.

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