{"id":1068,"date":"2014-02-27T23:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T06:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.grunschev.com\/wordpress\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2014-02-27T23:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T06:46:32","slug":"two-weeks-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grunschev.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/two-weeks-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Weeks in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quiet here because I&#8217;ve been a bit busy. I&#8217;m nearing the end of two weeks in Portland on business.<\/p>\n<p>Rewinding to last week, but first a digression. I recently decided that it would be great fun to make the drive here from Denver if I could arrange a track day at Portland International Raceway. I reached out to the local enthusiasts, Club Lotus Northwest (CLNW) and found that they&#8217;re having a track day at PIR on August 29. I also signed up for their mailing list. When my presence was requested in the office, it turns out that I&#8217;d be in town when CLNW had one of their meetings.<\/p>\n<p>So last Tuesday I found myself at the McMenamin&#8217;s Courtyard restaurant at the Kennedy School to meet with the fine folks of CLNW. Genae and I make fun of the TV shows where the substance abusers all know that there&#8217;s an AA meeting right around the corner from wherever they are. And so I travel a thousand miles to attend a Lotus club meeting. &#8220;My name is Dave and I drive a Lotus!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmenamins.com\/427-kennedy-school-home\">Kennedy School<\/a> was an elementary school built in 1915. McMenamin&#8217;s renovated the once abandoned gem, turning it into a complex featuring a 57 room hotel, a theater, and a handful of restaurants\/bars. I probably should have wandered around the place a bit to enjoy the murals. I&#8217;ll put it on my list for a return visit.<\/p>\n<p>A few quick thoughts on my two weeks here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rental car for the first week was a Kia Forte. Never heard of it before. First car I&#8217;ve driven in ages that didn&#8217;t have a remote lock. A very pedestrian car completely lacking in any interesting features.<\/li>\n<li>Week one&#8217;s hotel room was on the top floor, right next to the elevator. I was expecting it to be noisy but I was pleasantly surprised it was quiet. But each morning I was awakened to the smell of bacon &#8211; the breakfast area was directly below me and the scent went straight up the elevator shaft.<\/li>\n<li>Going through security at DIA they directed me to a line where I didn&#8217;t need to remove my jacket, belt, or shoes, and could leave the laptop in the backpack. A first for me.<\/li>\n<li>Returning to Denver, my flight was delayed over two hours due to wind in Denver. Only the second time I&#8217;ve had a flight delayed due to weather in Denver.<\/li>\n<li>Second time through DIA I was again diverted, this time through the TSA pre-check line. Do they not realize I&#8217;ve been on the watch list for the last several years? I could get used to such quick screening.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m certainly spoiled by the weather in Denver. I enjoy my time here in Portland, but the weather is a bit of a downer. I may be wrong, but I think it has rained every day I&#8217;ve been here these two weeks. I&#8217;m told the sun comes out by July.<\/li>\n<li>Week two&#8217;s car is a Dodge Avenger. How did they manage to give an exciting name to such a drab car?<\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s hotel is being renovated. At least the rooms on my floor are. I&#8217;m in a newly redecorated room. Half the rooms are under construction &#8211; there are post-it notes on most doors: &#8220;Complete by Friday&#8221;, &#8220;Tile: caulk soap dish, caulk top of tile in shower&#8221;, and so on. New carpet, tile, wallpaper. But they kept the old sink and bathtub. Instead of the smell of bacon in the morning, I get the smell of paint all the time.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a bit stuck in a rut in the restaurant category. I have dinner at another McMenamin&#8217;s place &#8211; John Barleycorn&#8217;s. This time was a pint of their Ruby and a chicken pesto sandwich.<\/li>\n<li>Being a book junkie, I make a trip downtown to Powell&#8217;s City of Books. Three floors that take up a full city block, I can never make an exit without an armload.<\/li>\n<li>Each time now, I eat at the Deschutes Brewery a block from Powell&#8217;s. Tonight it was smoked chicken and field greens &#8211; basically a Cobb salad with greens instead of iceberg lettuce. And a half liter of one of their cask ales. 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