As many of you know, we were not estatic with our neighbourhood in Vancouver, WA. We were very happy that our landlord let us out of our lease early ... and we found a place in a neat neighbourhood in the Alphabet district of downtown Portland. We love it. We recently completed our move and already feel more at home after just a few weeks. Here is a bit about our new home ...
We live in the downtown area ... loads of neat restaurants, coffee shops, book shops, and neat little local food shops in the area. We are about 1.5 miles from Forest Park - which offers loads of riding. Very little single-track, but loads of protected road-ways for the road bikes and lots of fun double-track for the mountain bikes. Lots of 'short (6 - 10 min) climbs for those hill days and some nice rolly options for those endurance zone days. I can ride right out of the door. Bliss.
We have a plum tree and huge pine tree in our backyard ... along with grape and tomatoe vines. It is a great backyard. The front yard concists of another large tree and rose bushes. The house itself is a bit older with loads of character. We even got lucky and got a basement ... so we have our basement training room set up for those days that we don't have time to get in a longer ride or it is just too cold and wet outside.
We are still unpacking boxes but it's looking alot like home ... come visit!!!
