Some Pictures from Portland Jan + Feb

From Pacific NW College of the Arts (PNCA)

Also at PNCA

My friend Genevieve and I on the Worst Day of the Year Bike Ride (turned out to be pretty nice weather that day, actually)

Some sweet potato and beet soup a friend and I made

Some Pictures from Jan + Feb travels

Rafferty Cousins in SF! Mike, Julia, and Claire

Manhattan from the airplane window

Sculpture in the 8th Ave + 14th St. subway station

Things we did when the visitors were in town

I was thinking about how many different Portland attractions were visited when my parents and Chow were in town, and thought I'd make a list for posterity's sake-

• Restaurants: Nutshell, Dalo's, Laurelthirst, Chaos Cafe, Hotlips Pizza, It's a Beautiful Pizza, Veganopolis, Blossoming Lotus
  
• Attractions: OMSI, 3D Photography Center, Avalon Wonderland, Bullseye Glass Co. tour, School of Rock show (playing the best of the NW at the Wonder Ballroom)
  
• Bars: the Bye and Bye (vegan bar), Ground Kontrol (bar-arcade)
  
• Outdoor stuff: the Eastmoreland Rhododendron Garden, Mt. Tabor, the walk across the Hawthorne bridge
• Misc: Voodoo Doughnut, Foodfight (and Herbivore), game night
  

Things we didn't get to:

• The movie theater/breweries, Mt. Hood, Portland Rock Gym, Ya Hala, Forest Park, the Columbia gorge, the art museum, Portlandia

Next time: even more fun

December around Portland

The Christmas tree we found on Mt. Hood and cut down

avocado-grapefruit salad, yum

Sophie/Bruce the dog, looking svelte

Bruce attacking Chow, then pretending to be innocent

Smoked tomato soup from Blossoming Lotus

Mammoth + mastodon teeth at OMSI

The Jamaican platter at Nutshell

My Mom and Terri Geiselman

My Dad on Christmas

On a tour of Bullseye Glass Co., where Chow's sister works

Piece created from glass stringers

Created by painting dust glass on a sheet of glass and then firing

Chow stylin' the fly safety glasses on the tour

In Forest Park in Portland (the largest natural urban forest reserve in the US)


Greg and Anna on the MAX on New Years Eve

Portland According to Me

Thanksgiving on the Geiselmans' Farm!

Rode down to our cousins' organic berry farm for Thanksgiving. It was a scenic 30 mile ride through rolling farmland, with Greg towing a trailer with Bruce the dog (aka Sophie) and Anna towing one with the food we cooked. Took us about 3 hours on the way down and 2.5 on the way back.

Note Bruce enjoying the view

View of Mt. Hood from the road

The pie collection (Anna's cranberry one's a little squashed because it rode in the bike trialer)

Frozen lacinato kale in the garden the morning after Thanksgiving

The farm house

Sheeba the dog walking in the woods on the farm

Jim, Anna, and Greg watching The Two Towers the day after Thanksgiving

Cyclo-cross Crusade at Barton Park outside Portland

I got back to Portland on October 28th, ending ~6.5 months of nomadism since I moved out of NYC in April.

Taking a break from looking for apartments and working, I raced in a Cross race on Sunday at Barton Park:

enjoying the scenery

Greg jumping the barrier

Greg and Brian (one of his Ironclad teammates) on one of the run ups

Greg jumping the barrier again


Video I took of the first bunch of A-class men going over the barrier

Greg and I after our races