Portland Oregon....summer of 2010

Portland, Oregon August 28th 2010

Spent the entire day, enjoying the best of Portland..


Before heading out to enjoy the best that Portland has to offer..

The famous Portland landmark sign..in the heart of Old town...
Now this what you see if you look eastward from Portland, Mt. Hood is about 50 miles away...just awesome...Our Kilimanjaro, or Mt. Fuji you might say....
This is a different mountain to the North looking over the Fremont Bridge, This mountain erupted in 1981. Mt. St. Helens which is about 60 miles into Washington State...I may someday hike down into the floor of volcano...


This kayak, canoe dock is on the OMSI (east) of the Willamette River, I flew my Snoopy Kite off the dock. The wind was just right..Met this dude, Maurice I think his name was... from Paris, France who was visiting Portland who was swimming
off the dock! Lest the poor guy did not know that people don't actually swim in the Willamette River because its a bit polluted and the water is just too damn cold even in the middle of summer. I guess you have to be a local to know that stuff...aye.?


Waterfront park, live bands, craftspeople, visitors enjoying a beautiful day..
'All the Apparatus' the coolest Portland Street Band

No explanation is needed.



Italian festival at Pioneer Square...Best Quality, food, music, people...There are these proffesional entertainers brought in for the event...Just the best... Tony Bennet type crooners and lively Italian beauties who can really sing and dance.....Oh what a evening everyone was having!


Summer Fashion Show at the World Trade Center in Portland...awesome stuff... interesting thing happened here....little Gestapo type security guard stepped in my way. The situation was diffused on account of all parties taking a chill approach and it ended all good. The lesson learned by all parties was that not too take ourselves too seriously and laughter breaks the ice and relieves tension.....





Gazeebo at Peninsula Park Rose Garden in the heart of North Porland a chill Drum Circle practicing....

Dragsters at the Portland Speedway
Hobby Shop window of these cute little hot air baloons...vintage Jules Verne

There is a place called the Columbia Slough! (pronouced slew) and this is it!

These days if there is one thing single guys like me will never be short of, is online dating sites! Jeez Luise everyone wants you to join their dating site.., how nice...

While on the subject of pet peeves here are a couple more pertaining to Facebook.

Farmville and Jesus freaks!......you know who you are!...lol

Farmville people, please grow you own or do something with your spare time and try to keep us out it.

Then we have those who have been "saved" and wish to save us all, I am happy for you.. I understand how enraptured you when you come home from Sunday Service each week. Please say a small prayer for me silently, and hold off on proselytizing religious beliefs in this forum...Its annoying to most.

In post modern industrialized world we live in, polite people refain from talking about Religion or Politics in open forums.. Having said that I guess with family members and with some die hards, you have no choice in the matter. ....lol. I may have to concede a bit on this one but the FarmVille crap, has got to go, though...its like a virus...damn...This a case where being un-friend-ed on FB is actually your friend!!!

Kilauea, Hawa'ii, most active volcano in the world at dawn....
At the bottom of the Kilauea Iki volcano floor, most awsome place ever...note I have my hiking boot in my hand and am in flip flops, it is like someone had tossed around these huge concrete/ashpahlt slabs! up against the walls of the crater, randomly. The surface is hot and prickly as there is a substance like glass is mixed in with the concrete....Native Hawaiians believe the volcano Godess Pele's is present at Kilauea, and the green glass like substance found inside the crater are Pele's Tears...they should not be picked up and taken out of the crater....Quite an experience...



Red Lining STI's
Subaru America, Port of Vancouver, Aug., 2010

Patty the Guinness Queen of Hayden Island, Oregon



People sitting outside the Rose Garden Arena waiting for Lady Gaga Concert 8.29.2010 11am
Lady Gaga's Promo Tour Bus...
Gaga fans.....
gagans
gagans

Picture taken right in the middle of Pioneer Square in Portland of the old Courthouse, which now is the offices of 4 judges...
To get to the gold bike on top a youngster would have to go thru all the other bikes before......lol
me with Gaga fans.....Aug 19 2010

My ride....2000 Chrysler LHS, The Mothership...Its the most comfortable ride ever.. a true American Classic... I have had it since 2000. Its made several trips to Vancouver BC, made a trip of six western states, Washington, Oregon, California, Navada, Arizona,(southern most) Utah, Idaho and back over the Cascade range back to Portland spring break of 2005. Amanda, Ashan Korala and I went to have a look at the University of Phoenix as Amanda wanted to transfer there her Sophmore year... eventually she stayed at University of Oregon and graduated in 2009. The car is possibly the largest American production car manufactured that year...its is like travelling in your living room..!! as of today its has about 152,000 miles on it and still feels like a fairly new vehicle....


inside of my ride....2000 Chrysler LHS pic taken after I got off work at the Clark County Fair in Aug 2010
Lady Gaga Pre-concert Party was here!

This is a truck stop Martini....brilliant...

That Old Feeling is a 1997 romantic comedy starring Bette Midler and Dennis Farina. The film was directed by Carl Reiner.

Molly De Mora (Paula Marshall) invites her divorced parents (Bette Midler and Dennis Farina) to her wedding reception, where they see each other for the first time in 14 years. A shouting match between the two ensues. Following this, their spark is rekindled during the wedding reception. Over the next few days they fall in love again and run off together, thereby upsetting the newlyweds' honeymoon and their respective (current) spouses. If the scandal was made public it would be more controversial than usual, since the bride's husband hopes to stand for election to Congress. After searching for her parents and getting to know Joey Donna (Danny Nucci), her mothers' number one paparazzi nicknamed "The Cockroach", who she hires to help her find them, Molly decides that her parents deserve a chance to be together and gives them her honeymoon to Hawaii. When Keith objects to her decision, it is revealed that he slept with her stepmother. Knowing now that her marriage was a mistake, Molly runs off with Joey as her parents run off to Hawaii. It has since then been Carl Reiner's last film.

Crater Lake Oregon, on the basis of comparing average depths among the world's deepest lakes, Crater Lake becomes the deepest lake in the Western Hemisphere and the third deepest in the world.^[10] Comparing average depths among the world's lakes whose basins are entirely above sea level, Crater Lake is the deepest
Christmas lunch with Michael
My trusty mode of transportation around Portland the summer of 2010
Rainbow over Waikiki Beach December 2008
Cape Kiwanda, Oregon summer 2010

Knights of the realm jousting at the Fair
How did this get here?

This is where Capt. Cook the great explorer and navigator got into a dispute with the native Hawaiians and was killed...
Wild Rooster Hawaii Island, another non-native hanger on...
me at work doing what I consider the dumbest job in the world, for eight hours you have to get in and out of cars and stage them up a few yards at a time...
here is another weekend job at the Clark County Fair. Made a lot of Funnel Cakes, Elephant Ears and Corn Dogs... !!

A perfectly poured Guinness by bartender Kiki at Realto in Downtown Portland.

Guinness World Records