Since I arrived here a day early (due to MEI's being closed this week), I decided to take a
walking tour of the downtown area. When I went to the Convention Center to register and pick up my TESOL bag and program book, I ran into Jose Antonio da Silva, a webhead/EVO friend whom I had never met f2f before, and we decided to take the tout together. The weather is yucky (cold and rainy), but it's going to be like this all week, so I donned my fleece jacket under my raincoat, pulled on those boots I am now so glad I brought, and took my umbrella. JA and I took the MAX (light rail) to Pioneer Courthouse Square to meet our tour guide, Amber.
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Native Portlanders don't carry umbrellas;
this one was sculpted by John Seward Johnson II in 1983 and is called Allow Me. |
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| JA and Allow Me, aka Umbrella Man |
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| Pioneer Courthouse, the MAX train and the Square |
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| The dragon is brought out on stormy days. Lucky me. |
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| How far is it to....? |
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