Day 10: Baby it's Getting Cold Outside

Okay, so we're not really talking the kind of cold that is going on out there in Ohio, but we are definitely feeling a bit chilly tonight. brrr. We left around 8am this morning and driving the winding uphill rout 5 towards Oregon.

Lovely change in scenery.

 I struggled with a bit of car sickness as the passenger for the first leg so after a few pictures I closed my eyes and listened to our third book on tape, Terry Pratchett's Pyramids.

The view was incredible and we saw our first white topped mountain.

Our ears were popping on this leg.

We started touching the clouds.

More clouds.

We arrived in Portland, OR around 3pm and headed straight downtown to stand in line for some Voodoo Donuts!

This place was incredible! There were about three of these revolving cases with all their freshly baked donuts. We had a long wait and by the time we got to the front we couldn't decide what to buy. Peter stepped up and asked for one Voodoo Dozen aka they pick 12 donuts for you. We're obviously not holding back on this trip!

We loaded the donuts in the car for later and headed off to my second local selection, Crema coffee shop. Here is my fancy Spanish latte, milk/condensed milk with espresso. Wow!

For dinner we followed Road Food's suggestion for fish and chips at Halibuts. Poor Peter who is currently on his "no beer month" had to suffer past many local brewery pubs on our walk over. We hope to return to try some of them in the future. 

Large pot of clam chowder! Very, very good and flavorful. 

A bizarre shot of our fish and sweet potato chips. The fish was halibut (of course) with sweet potato chips. This was so light and delectable, almost like tempura. Rating: Lexi: 9 Peter: GOOD!

The road trip is beginning to take its toll on us. We're pretty sleepy by the time we get to our motels and being cold again helps our need to just curl up under the covers. Portland has been grand so far. We tuned into the Portland public radio on our way to the motel and after two soundbite errors we heard "God damn it!" before that was quickly muted to silence. hehe. 

Tomorrow we're meeting up with an old Ultimate buddy of mine for breakfast before we head up to Seattle. We were hoping to stay overnight but the weather is looking a little treacherous. We need to get into town on the 15th to collect our apartment key so it looks like we'll be playing it safe tomorrow. At least Seattle will only be a 3 hour drive away! 

Stay warm everyone! Now for some Jeopardy, The Hobbit, and some of these....:)