Monday, June 22, 2009

20090611 Portland, Oregon

We took Crazy Jeff's truck to Burger Basket for necessary sustenance and then he delivered me up to Portland, to the downtown ON Gallery where Bluefoote greeted me with a hug and pushed a bicycle at me and said "come on, let's go" and we went across the Burnside Bridge to join a gathering of bicycle freaks in a park and then form a costumed and decorated parade looping through neighborhoods of interested onlookers, past rose bushes, tooting and ringing and laughing.

I cut loose for a few minutes to visit Christof at his suburban home and he grinned as he poured me a cup of sake. But I had to rejoin the parade: I found them milling around in another park. Ben and Emily guided me to one of the wonderful Portland pubs for dinner and drinks in a porch swing beside an open fire.

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