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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Carefree Time In Portland
1.7 Arrival Sunday 28 April, 2024

1.7 Arrival In Portland

I took Air Canada from Vancouver YVR airport to Portland PDX airport at 8:45am on April 28, 2024. The plane arrived in Portland International airport at 10:00am the same day. The total flying time was only 1 hour 15 minutes. Then I took Portland TriMet MAX Red Line from Portland Int'l airport Max station Portland Airport (PDX) to Skidmore Fountain Max station Portland. It took about 36 minutes. From there I walked 4 minutes to Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland Downtown where I stayed.

Portland

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county. As of 2020, Portland's population was 652,503, making it the 27th most populous city in the United States, the sixth most populous on the West Coast, and the third most populous in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle and Vancouver. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan area, making it the 25th most populous in the United States. Almost half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metro area.
Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool, rainy winters. This climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the "City of Roses" for over a century.

Portland's cityscape derives much of its character from the many bridges that span the Willamette River downtown, several of which are historic landmarks, and Portland has been nicknamed "Bridgetown" for many decades as a result. Three of downtown's most heavily used bridges are more than 100 years old and are designated historic landmarks: Hawthorne Bridge (1910), Steel Bridge (1912), and Broadway Bridge (1913). Portland's newest bridge in the downtown area, Tilikum Crossing, opened in 2015 and is the first new bridge to span the Willamette in Portland since the 1973 opening of the double-decker Fremont Bridge.

Other bridges that span the Willamette River in the downtown area include the Burnside Bridge, the Ross Island Bridge (both built 1926), and the double-decker Marquam Bridge (built 1966). Other bridges outside the downtown area include the Sellwood Bridge (built 2016) to the south; and the St. Johns Bridge, a Gothic revival suspension bridge built in 1931, to the north. The Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge and the Interstate Bridge provide access from Portland across the Columbia River into Washington state.

There are 12 bridges crossing the Willamette River：
1. St. Johns Bridge (1931)
2. Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge (1908)
3. Fremont Bridge (1973)
4. Broadway Bridge (1913)
5. Steel Bridge (1912)
6. Burnside Bridge (1926)
7. Morrison Bridge (1958)
8. Hawthorne Bridge (1910)
9. Tilikum Crossing (2015)
10. Marquam Bridge (1966)
11. Ross Island Bridge (1926)
12. Sellwood Bridge (2016)

The 6 major divisions of Portland are North, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, South and Southwest Portland which includes downtown Portland .

▲ Chocolate muffins

▲ Cinnamon rolls

▲ Oranges, Apples, Honeydew, Cantaloupe

▲ Pan cake, Butter, Syrup, Scrambled eggs, Fried Potatoes

▲ Cheese Mixed Vegetable Omelette, Muffin, Butter, Strawberry jam;
Orange, Apple, Honeydew, Cantaloupe

▲ Cinnamon roll