Wednesday

I'm going to sit for a moment in the beautiful rose garden and remember all I did yesterday. Thankfully I took notes during dinner when I want people watching. I've decided the best way to have dinner while traveling is to pick a restaurant with outside seating and a happy hour menu. It seems like they put the best stuff on the menu with the right portion size since leftovers would be a pain. Of course my salad last night  wasn't on that menu but I couldn't resist the brewery smoked salmon, this is the northwest after all. They know their salmon and their beer, yum! Now back to my afternoon hike. So... I read about this 4T trail. It makes a loop up to the highest point in Portland using the train, tram (aerial) trolley and trekking would be the last T. At the crest you can see Mt. Hood, Mount St. Helens, Mt Adams and some other mountain I forget.  The trek was a 4 mile hike up a mountain with the crest in the middle of it. I, of course, had to do it my way and started at the other end thinking it would be a shorter hike, it might have been but it was still 2 miles of up and down hiking to get to the crest and then I took the "urban shortcut" back to where I started. It didn't seem like much of a shortcut but I got to see amazing houses on the hill including on that looked perched on a 30 foot pole with the driveway being a bridge to the house. Hmmm... Cool, great view, but not the house for me. I then took the sky tram down the hill and the trolley back downtown. I made all 4 Ts. Went back to my hotel after a little more downtown rambling and I was completely exhausted.