Finally back to sharing the rest of our photos from our October west coast road trip. The next stop along our way was San Francisco. Our stay here was a little dampened by our van getting broken into (seriously friends - do you research and don't stay in sketchy neighbourhoods!), but getting out and seeing the redwoods, the ocean and the cool San Fran fog did at least help to make it all seem worthwhile.
Roadtrip
Portland
Our first impression of Portland is that it is pretty weird. This opinion is based solely on the downtown area on a weekend. There are a lot of interesting characters wasting their afternoons away on a Sunday downtown. The industrial part of town was much nicer in my opinion. Many colourful walls and excellent branding is everywhere.
Portland did, however, do an excellent job at leaving full grown trees left to grow in their downtown business district.
Cannon Beach
Today we left Seattle and took off to Portland. We made a couple stops along the way when we saw things worth visiting.
We took a little detour to Cannon Beach on our way to Portland. We could totally move here. The water was a little chilly but it didn't stop a couple of us. I had to look this up but the name of the rocks is 'Haystack Rock' and the smaller ones are called the 'Needles".
