Portland

In July, my spouse and I traveled to Portland to link with our youngest daughter (and her boyfriend). While out there we also saw my spouse's father, her brother, and an old friend of mine from graduate school, Paul (a former blogger here (!) and best man at my wedding decades ago). 

We had a nice outing along the Columbia River Gorge, stopping at Cape Horn: 

 

In addition to visiting Powell's Books, I tried to drink some good beers in that terrific beer city. For example, I had the World Beer Cup winning Australian pale ale, Dragontail IPA, and the World Beer Cup winning Nonalcoholic Deschutes Black Butte Porter.  The latter was consumed at the brewpub in the Pearl District. 

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