The Bomber Complex and Cheese Sandwiches

When we saw the word "Bomber" we knew we were in the right place...

As an avid seeker of all things odd, I  knew we just had to see this roadside oddity...

Things from Another World comic shop

Whenever we visit a city, we usually try to visit several places - a college or university for TC, an ice cream place for all of us, a wierd roadside attraction or museum for me...

and a comic book store for Bert and myself...

Searching for Dark Horse...plus Wunderland in Milwaukie

After cranking out those Canada Highlights posts, it's time to return to Portland.

We're still on Day 4, which was spent with KDB. We had just dropped him off after our ice cream break at Salt & Straw, and were headed to Milwaukie...

We passed by the Sheridan Fruit Company on SE MLK...

We also drove past the Carts on Foster food pod on SE Foster Road. KDB told us he was planning to order cannolis from Holy Cannoli for an upcoming party.

So many food pods...so little time! Let's carry on shall we?

Salt and Straw

We had enough of the dark at Ground Kontrol. It was time to get out into the gray daylight once again. After parking down the block, we passed by this roller skating store. They had cool gear there. Maybe it's for the roller derby chicks...

Across the street was the ice cream place we wanted to go to...

Let's go in, shall we?

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade

We crossed one of Portland's many bridges to get to the outer edges of downtown...

We were headed to a place I'd read about that I knew Bert would love...

Return to Good Food Here pod - Viking Soul

As promised earlier, we made a return trip to the Good Food Here pod.

We were especially curious about this cart...

Mazama Mountaineering Center

Oops, we didn't go to the food pod right away after Mike's Movie Madness....

Instead, KDB wanted us first to see the lodge for his mountain climbing club...

Mike's Movie Madness - Part 2 (the Return)

After picking up KDB, we headed back towards his favorite video store...

It was past 11 am and my curiosity was killing me...

Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden

This was a Portland travel magazine that KDB let me borrow. In it, you can see the different neighborhoods and "quadrants" of Portland...

During our 2nd visit to this beautiful city, we pretty much went to almost every neighborhood and quadrant, but we preferred the SE the best...

As mentioned in the previous Portland post, we had some time to kill. We just bought some snacks from An Xuyen and now we were on our way to a garden located near Reed College...

Russian Elegant Food...and return to An Xuyen Bakery

Our attempt to visit Mike's Movie Madness was a bust. It was still too early in the morning. KDB needed to get some stuff done for work so he suggested that we drop him off and pick him up in  a hours. We had some to kill so I asked Bert if we could check out this Russian place we passed by on the way to KDB's:

Elegant? I noticed that there were quite a few ethnic eateries and bakeries along this particular stretch of road...

Mike's Movie Madness - Part 1

A video store you say?

What's so special about a video store?

Good Food Here

Located just mere steps away from Slappy Cakes was this food pod...

KDB wanted to show us a few of his favorite food carts...

Day 4 - Breakfast with KDB @ Slappy Cakes

We were originally planning to go to Mount Hood with KDB but he was worried about the weather conditions. There was a big snow storm going on and he didn't want us to get stuck there, so instead we did our "Plan B"...

This was one of his favorite breakfast places in his neighborhood...