Eastside

Portland is split into quadrants with Burnside Ave splitting the city into North and South, and the Willamette river splitting the city into East and West.

I finally made it out to the east-side today and it's a pretty quaint area. I went to visit my friend living in NE Portland, and there's a street there called NE Flanders. Apparently somebody got the brilliant idea to sharpie a D into the street sign and renamed the street NED Flanders.

Mt. Tabor Park is there too, where you get a view of Portland valley from the East. Lots of people hiking up and down, biking around - theme of the city.

I had to take the freeway to get to my friend's house, and I averaged about 40 mph, even though there wasn't much traffic. Everybody was moving smoothly at this lower speed, in fact I do not even remember seeing any speed limit signs and I usually do because they're much larger than the ones in CA.

I didn't get directions for the way home in homes of getting lost and having to learn the streets better, and I succeeded in doing that. I don't think I took the most efficient route back to my house, but it definitely worked. I just kept looking up towards Marquam Hill so I could determine how close I am to home.

I need to go out and get lost more often.