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Portland with Mom and being HOME

After celebrating our arrival at the Pacific on the 31st, my Mom and I spent the morning in Cannon Beach exploring the beach with Becky and Sonya and Olivia before heading back to Portland.  We took Jesse, Alyson and Sarah W back to Portland with us, and everybody went to Noah's house.  From there, we packed up bikes (I completely dissambled mine part by part because I'm crazy haha) and said goodbyes.  After checking in to the hotel, my Mom and I got pizza at this cool little place with tables on the ceiling and then I got to sleep in a bed for the night.

We spent the next day exploring Portland on a tandem bike that we rented which was a lot of fun.  We also got to meet up with all the Bike and Builders again which was cool.  We went up to the Rose Garden in the hills above Portland which was nice too.

We got around so quick on the bike that we had seen pretty much all of downtown Portland we wanted to haha, and the next day drove out the scenic Columbia River Gorge and did some hiking amongst the waterfalls.  For dinner we went down to Hood River to a brewery and watched the windsurfers before heading back to catch the plane.  A nice two days, but I was ready to get home after the whole summer!

Powell's Books, in d'town Portland is a full city block and four stories tall, the largest independent bookstore in the world!!

Hhahaha

Roses!

Voodoo donuts!

In front of Haystack Rock on the beach

At low tide, all the sea life on the rock was super cool

Sea anemone!

And breakfast that morning haha, it was picture worthy I must've thought

One of the highest waterfalls in the country I think, if not the tallest

The water was covered with wind surfers and kite boarders, and I heard one of them comment how few people were out then!!

Rock Bottom Brewery sampler!

Riding the tandem

Home

I haven't done too much since I've been home, my days have pretty much went like this: wake up at noon, eat some breakfast my brother made and then go for a bike ride.  Come back to dinner my Mom made for me, then a few hour nap in the hammock and reading my book before friends come over and we drink some beers around a my expert bonfires haha.  It's the life.  My first day back, I went for a 44 mile ride and climbed every big hill in the area including Churchill road going around Otisco Lake, and it is steeper than anything we climbed this summer!  I went down Munro (and back up) to see how fast I could get, but only a disappointing 54mph... And then Friday my ride was short, with the skin suit and I just put in some TT efforts in the bars to prepare to the Great Race this Sunday.