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We loved the free, Portland street car system. We could hop on and off anywhere. When it’s raining a popular place to jump off is Pioneer Place. I’m not into frou-frou shopping myself, but a book on the upper level with this view isn’t a bad way to burn an hour while those in your party do their thing.
The main reason we went to Portland was to see Wicked. Photography wasn’t allowed so these are the only two shots I took, before the show started.
We were starving, getting rained heavily on, and asked only one person what the best Chinese food in town was. She pointed us to House of Louie across the street. We were disappointed. The food was mediocre at best.
We made up for it the next day with a great meal at Mother’s.
At long last you get to see the donuts we ate. I ordered the “Mango Tango” (lower left). I didn’t realize it when I ordered but the icing was actually fondant. The insides were a mangoish jelly.
My daughter had the one covered in Oreos. I think it is on yesterday’s menu and called “Dirt Doughnut.” My son had the “No Name” donut which had chocolate, rice krispies, and peanut butter on it.
Needless to say, unless you hate donuts, you will want to check out Voodoo Doughnut the next time you visit Portland.
As far as I could tell there were about three or four times as many donuts on display as there were donuts listed on the menu. We thought about just having them pick a dozen for us as the price wasn’t much more than us picking four donuts, but in the end we made our selections. You’ll get to see them tomorrow.
Since I can tell you didn’t get your fill of Voodoo Doughnuts yesterday, I’ve added some more in today’s entry. Click on this photograph to make it bigger and then look closely. What do you see? A pentagram donut perhaps? There were so many crazy ones. The whole place was crazy really. One wall was wallpapered with random obituaries–a first in restaurant decor I’m sure.
Last week we spent several days in Portland. So for the next week or so on Ashland Daily Photo you will get to see the other city on the far extreme of the state.
Today’s picture is of the lovely bacon donut we didn’t purchase at Voodoo Doughnut. The giant, glazed donut behind the bacon donut doesn’t look that large in this picture for some reason, but it is actually huge. I would estimate it to have at least 5X the calories of a regular glazed donut. It goes by the name Tex-Ass donut, and it is free if you can eat it in under 80 seconds.
I took this photograph from N Phoenix Road in Phoenix, just north of Ashland. Although the “mountain” on the right seems higher, it is actually only at an altitude of about 7,150 feet. The name is Wagner Butte and it makes for a beautiful hike in late spring.
To the left, and still covered in snow, is Mt. Ashland. The elevation of Mt. Ashland is over 7,500 feet. It appears lower from this angle simply because it is further away.
The people inside were hoping for a spectacular view. Instead they got shutters on this day.
Even though I have lived in Southern Oregon for almost nine years now I have only seen Crater Lake once, and that was before moving here! The last time I went to Crater Lake it was the middle of the night to pick up my family camping in a snow storm. Needless to say, I didn’t see it then.
After snowmobiling nearby we decided to take a look at Crater Lake in the winter. Unfortunately, as we drew closer it began to snow. By the time we got there the wind was blowing really strong and visibility was next to nothing. The above photo would be quite the scenic one on many other days as Crater Lake would be in the background. As it was, it was all we could do to keep from getting blown off the snow cliff into the lake far below.