Long day of travel (okay, it was only 160 miles) and we arrived into Portland mid-afternoon Thursday.  The drive was mostly uneventful; however we did go to a gallery that is so underrated in areas outside of the PNW.  I mean, we go to galleries in Minneapolis and NYC and have never seen these artists get their due.  Love the pearly whites on Sasquatch.

There was a song released in 1961 called ‘Who Put the Bomp’ …

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I’d like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me (yeah)

Well, I immediately thought of that song when I took this photo.  You can make up your own lyrics, but I’m giving you the opening lines.

Went to dinner last night with our nephew, Carter Steinhagen.  Carter is a freshman at Lewis and Clark College outside Portland and is an incredibly engaging young man.

After dinner, we toured the campus, met his roommate Nic and now wish we could enroll in college once again!

Check out Nic’s white board behind him – who has that kind of handwriting???  Carter calls it Nic’s font.  He also said he and Nic get along sooo well because they are both neatniks and their dorm room proved it when we walked in unannounced.

Lift Driver Zoe

So, leaving the restaurant last night we had a Lift driver named Zoe.  Young fellow, and while I would prefer to not generalize about people (I will anyway), Zoe was the quintessential young Portlander.  Here’s what we learned in 10 minutes.  He’s been to the University here, taken additional courses on robotics, is currently editing a video for MIA (not determined if it was an authorized version, but he has 4 months into the production), and is an expert on absinthe, including distilling his own brew.

I mean, I was down with his MIA love – I also have her on my iTunes play list:

Time to spit new shit
I’m rocking on this new bit
I’m hot now you’ll see
I’ll fight you just to get peace

Linda is so dang cute – let me give you one more reason.

Who remembers Saturday Night Live with Chevy Chase doing the news?  Well at the end of the news, he would repeat the headlines and Garret Morris would appear in a little circle in the lower corner and repeat the headlines for the hearing impaired.  Not simply repeat, but shout the headlines.

This is Linda with her GPS sharing directions.  I can hear perfectly the voice from the phone, but Linda must repeat (and step on) the other voice.  Love it!!!

Heading back to the Oregon coast to a spot that we were turned down because our vehicle was too old for their campground.  Once I sent a photo, they reneged and welcomed us J