24th September: Portland -> Seattle
September 29, 2009
The next morning, we checked out of the hotel and headed into the centre of Portland for a couple of hours. We just basically parked and had a quick look around the city centre buildings, looked at some shops and drank some coffee. It felt good just walking about and getting the legs moving again after a few long days of driving. I’m dreading getting back and standing on the bathroom scales, as i’ve felt my fitness levels slowly deteriorate due to lack of exercise. I’m guessing i’ve maybe put a stone on…. hmmmm.
AS our drive up to Seattle was only fairly short, we managed to check in to our hotel by late afternoon. Yet again, we’d got an airport hotel as we were due to drop off the car at the airport before flying to New York. I’d previously managed to cock up the dates of the drop off dates for the car, so i’d booked flights to New York a few days before we had to actually drop the car off. This annoyed me, as we’d had to miss a couple of things out, and basically rush up the west coast. The extra few days would have been a lot more of a relaxing drive.
It was a nice hotel, built next to some kind of forrest park that was some kind of conservation area, so the surrounding areas were all very green and forresty. It was that nice, we decided to stay in the hotel restaurant for dinner that night, which turned out to be very good. We also had to do a quick bit of research to see what we were going to do in Seattle for the next couple of days.
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