February 13, 2007
Greetings From Portland
Greetings from Portland! This was the surprise destination for Timber for a few reasons:
1. It is a short flight so it is easy to do a weekend flight there and back.
2. We both like Portland and have talked about doing a weekend trip here before.
3. Why bring her roses on V-day when I can bring her to the city of Roses.
The trip to Portland was fairly uneventful. We were running a little bit late, but luckily the flight out of San Jose was delayed a little while, so we were able to get to the airport, eat our dinner (a Chipotle burrito), work our way through security and get onto the plane. The flight was a hair over 1 hour, 20 minutes. Once we got to Portland we went straight to our car since we didn't have any luggage to pick up and the guy at the rental car counter talked me in to upgrading from a Dodge Neon to a Subaru Outback. I was OK with that because it was roomier, more powerful (turbo), would blend in better (Subaru's are everywhere in the Pacific Northwest), and I would actually consider buying one at some point in the future (what's better than a 2 day test drive?). After we got our car we headed to our downtown hotel, the Vintage Plaza and called it a night.