Saturday June 6, 2015

Another beautiful day on the bike. We left Steven’s house at 8:30. We knew it was going to be a hot day and needed to negotiate our way around Portland and its myriad of bike paths to find our warmshowers host.

The area around McMinnville and towards Portland has over 400 wineries. A lot of the smaller Towns have capitalized on this and have wine tasting rooms in the Town. I think this has helped revitalize the Towns in this area.

We had planned a route with Steven to get us into Portland. Then we had to find our hosts address, we found it without too much difficulty. We did have one big hill to go up. Although Portland has a grid system a lot of the streets do not run in a straight line, so we had to zig zag our way to SE 66^th.

We arrived at about 1:30 very hot and sticky. David and Lauren were out but had left the key under the mat. We let ourselves in and I decided to clean the bikes before we showered.

I gave the bikes a good clean and then we showered.

We had figured that David and Lauren would be out for the rest of the day as they had left us a note telling us how to turn the TV on if we needed to.

We went for a walk to the local grocery store and bought some wine and salad for dinner. No quiche but we did have the fixings for Tuna Nicoise, very nice on a hot day.

David and Lauren arrived home at about 9:30 pm, we had a quick chat and were in bed at 10:30pm