Portland Day 3 - Red Fox Vintage + Grand Central Bakery in Woodstock

Just up the street from Cloud City Ice Cream...

is another of of Portland's many thrift stores...

Portland Day 2 - Return to the Village Merchants + Joan of Arc statue

Prior to our trip, I had asked TC to make a wish list of sorts...

ranging from places to eat, visit and shop. She chose to focus on thrift stores...

Portland Day 1 - Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai

It's so lush and beautiful here...

so many of the yards and sidewalks are filled with beautiful flowering trees and blooms like this one...

Spring Break Trip 2018 - Portland: Day 1, Breakfast @ Elmer's Restaurant

We had a non stop flight to PDX...

Our in flight snack was a wrapped Biscoff cookie (which TC liked, so I gave her mine) and beverages...

Cafe 21 with Astroboi + Hawthorn Coffee, Mission Thrift Store and the Incredible Cheesecake Company

Fall break is for meeting up with friends...

in this case, Astroboi and with his choice of breakfast venue...

Scenes from Hillcrest and Pacific Beach with Astroboi + the new White Elephante thrift store & Better Buzz Coffee Roasters Pacific Beach West

After our breakfast at the newly re-opened Olympic Cafe...

Astroboi (the King of side streets) took the long way over to our next stop...

Scenes from Carpinteria

Here's a few photos from our quick visit to Carpinteria...

during our recent Summer Road Trip...

Downtown Carpinteria is quite walkable and there is quite a bit of street parking...

The Blue Pig

We'd passed this store earlier that afternoon while looking for the Martial Arts History Museum...

The motley assortment of items on the sidewalk caught my attention so we made a mental note to check it out after seeing the museum...

Trolley Adventure: Part 3 - Downtown, through the Valley's and to La Mesa

Right in front of the Convention Center...waiting for the Green Line

and enjoying the sunshine...

Thrift Trader - North Park

Now THIS is a label I haven't seen in decades!

If you're a female in your late 30's, you would probably remember what Dittos were...

The Village Merchants

Right after our lunch at the D Street Noshery, we wanted to "walk off" (some of) our meal...

We didn't go too far, since this place was right across the street...