Fourth of July

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:59:59 -800

Lara, Rick and I bicycled to Lloyd Center to see War of the Worlds today.
To the uninitiated: this means that I went careening around the streets of SE
Portland, from 39th and Powell all the way to NE 11th and Holladay. We took
some strange bike path northward through the 30s up to Stark, west to 28th,
north on 28th to Multnomah, and finally west to the movie theater. This was
quite eye-opening, as I'd never have thought it _that_ simple to get from one
part of town to another. As an idiot car driver, I'd probably have gone
straight up 39th to I-84 and west to the mall lot, completely ignoring the
ease with which one can worm through town. Clearly, I need to spend more time
studying the area bordered by 20th, 35th, Burnside and Belmont. Not to mention
the blocks between 60th, 72nd, Burnside and Glisan. Perhaps just all of SE.