My Walk Home

In case you aren't convinced by now about how much I love living in Portland, this post is to show you how beautiful my daily scenery is.

Don't get me wrong, my hometown Salt Lake City is gorgeous!...on a much grander scale.




But Portland is beautiful on a smaller and more diverse scale.  There are so many things to appreciate here.  So today...since the weather was so beautiful and clear, I walked the 45 minutes home from school instead of taking the bus and I took pictures along the way.

Here are some of the things I see on my way home from Portland State.

Meet Portlandia.  Yes, way before the TV show, came the second-largest copper statue in the U.S. (next to the Statue of Liberty of course).

My neighborhood and downtown are separated by the Willamette River, so I get to travel across the historic Hawthorne Bridge nearly every day.  It is so accessible for buses, cars, pedestrians and bicycles.

See Mt. Hood above?

Looking back towards downtown...

This is not a traveling circus...this is a whole lot on Hawthorne full of food carts.  It's called Cartopia, and is home to Whiffie's Fried Pies which is rumored to be the best cart in Portland.

Along SE Hawthorne, their are many unique shops and restaurants like these.

But I don't always like to walk on Hawthorne because of the traffic, so I duck into my neighborhood where there are lots of cute houses and many more cute squirrels! I don't know how I got this one to pose for me!

I hope you enjoyed my walk!