Portland Bound, Once Again

Our efforts to sell our apartment has been quite a ride since March (tear-off notice posted on bus kiosk near Columbia.)  We feel the end is closer, but... Tomorrow we leave for Portland, Oregon, and our family out there.  Taking along my Condom Amulet cap and thinking of new ideas for getting you to pay attention to the HIV crisis in women over 50  (and many others).

Ron's knit hats collection continues to grow even as they are given to others.  One went to Europe with  John Fu who came to visit this spring from Copenhagen where he now lives.  We met in Xian, China, 2000, when he was an undergrad.  Now has an MBA, and a serious job in Denmark.

(Even though I tried so to get him to go for an MPH, Public Health degree.) Photo snapped in nearby neighborhood restaurant, Toast, which describes itself as "truckstop gourment," good hamburgers, situated on Broadway at 124th where the elevated subway is above the street.  You can see it through the window in the background.

More hats left the house with Jonathan and Steve when they visited from D.C. (they send their best to M.E. at Xtreme English).  Great, late-into-night conversation on our ideas about world-saving--and sometimes despair.

It was 4 p.m. this Sunday...our last Open House(?) had ended...so I ran to Knitty City for answers to a deep yarn dilemna on a new project.  I love this place.  Sandra on left is amazing knitter-customer who answered part of question... Aryn, right, works there, helps me believe no problem is beyond solution.  Aryn created the Brooklyn Condom Amulet, very site-specific, which will go with me to PDX to amaze folks there.  (If you know Brooklyn, you'll recognize the embroidered Williamsburg Savings Bank.)

Put my Portland button back on my purse since we'll be with our daughter, known to her family as "the great employer," always finding ways to keep the world busy.

We'll miss our darling Roxie, take her photos along and bring back more pictures of her cousins.

Time to pack.  Took one more picture, Ron's latest weaving, to show other weavers/spinners we know in Portland.  Yes, he is a steadier fiber person these day than the woman who introduced him to it.

Works for me until I get my groove again, or maybe morph in a different direction.

Comments

[Hattie]

have a wonderful trip and be in touch.

[m.e.]

bon voyage! don't forget us here on the right coast....

[Anne Gibert]

What a contrast Portland must be to New York. Have a great trip. See you out west (the west is best, I always say.)

[joared]

Here's wishing you a good trip as you head West.