Day 9

This post is a part of a series on my three and a half week adventure road tripping to the west coast with three of my best friends in the Summer of 2018. I was challenged to write every day of the trip to document the adventure, so I did! My aim was to be as real and raw as possible while I was documenting and writing. Because of this, some days, I was honestly just not interested in writing, so I wrote very matter of fact “this is what we did.”

Check out the first part of the series here: Day 1 or check out a list of the days here: WCT2018

I wrote everything on my phone’s notes app, and below is word-for-word what I wrote each day. Nothing taken out, no elaborations.

As part of the challenge, I also made sure to take at least one picture every day, and each evening when I wrote, I picked one photo that I wanted to feature from that day. Some days it was hard to pick them, and other days I had only one to pick from.

A couple of notes: Each day that I wrote, I wrote the date, where I was writing from, and how many pictures I had taken that day. So the location doesn’t always reflect where the picture was taken.

July 30th
Air BnB - Portland
Pictures taken: 8

Today was our first all city day. We spent the day exploring downtown Portland! I’m not gonna lie, Portland has not been my favorite spot ever. I don’t know if I was expecting something different, but I have just had an uneasy feeling this whole time we’ve been here.

Today also was the first day that us guys were all a little on each other’s nerves. Hah! We knew it would happen, but just weren’t sure when. We are 1 week and 1 day in, and it seems to have hit. Having the Air BnB space to come back to each night has been really nice, but I think all of us are ready to get out of the city and back into the outdoors.

However, today had some fun perks. After getting coffee and hanging out at Stumptown Coffee in downtown, Jed and I went to Overlook Park and played some pickup Ultimate with a group that’s been playing for over 20 years! It was fun to connect with people over a common interest. 18 people I had never met before, I became friends with in the space of one hour. It was a good time in the city, but I’m ready for our next stop! Bend Oregon, here we go.