The Ambitious Odometer: Portland

Friday, July 14, 2017

{Road Trip} Day Sixteen - Out and About in the Portland Area

After a swim in the pool...

and some serious reorganizing and cleaning of the car, we hit the ground running, or walking, prepped for a full day of fun...

Our first stop was at the Hollywood Library...

for a map outlining a self-guided walking tour of popular children's author, Beverly Cleary's childhood neighborhood, pointing out locations used in her books...

There were definitely a couple of us more excited about this stop than others, but we got some great exercise walking the same streets that Beverly Cleary walked as a child...

and got to see TWO of her childhood homes...

and several spots used in her books...

our favorite being Klickitat Street, where the family of her beloved character, Ramona Quimby, lived...

We wandered through Grant Park to find the special sculptures dedicated to 3 of her most loved characters...

{Ribsy}

{Henry Huggins}

{Ramona Quimby}

and had fun playing a little bit, too...

before grabbing a delicious lunch at the Fleur de Lis Bakery & Cafe, housed at the old Hollywood Library location, where Beverly Cleary would've visited as an adult, when back in the neighborhood from time to time...

After lunch, we headed out to Newberg to visit one of President Herbert Hoover's boyhood homes...

President Hoover was orphaned as a child and came here to live with his aunt and uncle in the 1880s...

On the way out of town, we hit up a local fruit stand, and $18 worth of blackberries, blueberries, cherries, and raspberries were gone in about 5 minutes (and mind you $18 buys A LOT when it was picked within a block radius), so we went in and got bought more...