McMinnville & Lincoln City

Portland Breakfast

Bakers charging $3.50 a wholegrain (not wholemeal - 2 nations separated by a common language) loaf. No danger of them going out of business.

McMinnville sunny & warm.

Zach drops straight into this.

Then Lincoln City, just like going to the coast in Essex, just a bit nicer place.

Met up with Tavita & kids in Mo's (no pics - stupid me).

It dried up & Lincoln City was on.

Bros

Eva saying cheese, Otto not.

American dream & OG DEATH board

Leftovers Bowl with Heineken.

Then Newberg on way home. 

Zach got told off for not wearing a helmet.

Delridge & Portland Bridges

Skating Delridge with Mo & Phil Tedder, this pool coping was supplied by Phil & he gave it a good test. So did Liz.

Billy a young man who is sometimes thought to be related to Gin was also there doing 5050s where it's hard to get a truck near the coping.

Billy

Morris FS airs x 2

Then to Gins DC storage facility (note socks) & down to Portland.

Lincoln  City tomorrow

Jefferson Seattle with Mo & Gin.

There is a park being "opened" on Saturday - it has been there since Jan & is as smooth as you will ever need concrete to be.
The views over the city are amazing.
The big bowl is very deep in the corner & Morris makes it look easy.
Gin had to take thing easy as she has Black Belt exam in 8 days.
Therefore she spent the time mainly snacking.

At the Spitz concert she chopped me in the neck (which hurt).

Already told you about the heavy duty snacking...

Gin did actually skate a bit.

Super sunset with a really nice guy. Thanks Morris.

Yeah & Gin found it really funny to take pics of me doing my photos & then to make fun of me,
Sadly I do look like a moron & these photos do make me laugh at myself. Enjoy.

Spits Concert was very good. The German Landbier (like English Ale - yuk) which Mo made me drink was not.
Thank goodness for Stella.

The Dodge Caravan has a cool reversing camera which we had to take this Mustang's photo in as we let the concert.

Woodland.

Day 1.
Get there, it rains ("Brought the weather with you". First time ever I have found this funny, thanks Gin.) then it dries up & I skate solo.
Now waiting in cafe for Morris & Gin to finish work.

Coffee & WiFi junkie.

Archie McPhee, tat purchased, fart cushion, skulls bracelet etc.

Traffic lights for $150?

Fixie central

Dried out lovely.
New setup taking a bit of getting used to.

Seattle bound.

Well if you try to check in with BA & you get the message that it has not been possible to book a seat, it probably means that they have overbooked & you don't have a seat.
That's what happened to me anyhow. After a long bus trip this is really a bad situation.
So you get given a £3 coffee voucher & the offer of €600 on a voucher card (which can only be used for BA flights) if you accept that you are not getting on the plane...
I didn't & waited by the customer services desk, finally at the very last minute I got the seat & had to rush through security. Made it.