Coach Spore Diesel

Okay I rode all the light rails, the streetcars, and the tram. Wasted a lot of time and energy trying to find stops for the Gray Line hop-on hop-off trolley, so I didn't get that one.

Got back to base, thought I'd take a little walk to scope out the block, and that turned into a huge walk. Then yet another to seek t-shirts at a thrift store. Bust. No thrift at that store.

Feet hurt. Exhausted. Now doing laundry.

Oct 8 at 3:16amWeb
Show threadCoach Spore DieselOct 8

All of this Portland.

- zero craters
- no smoke
- zero scorch marks
- no fire
- no gunfire
- no explosions
- only occasional screaming, of the ranty sort, not the pain or horror sort

#PDX #Portland #PortlandOR #WarRavaged #SmokingHole

Show threadCoach Spore DieselOct 8
To be fair, I didn't go to the ICE facility today. The trolley wild goose chase bumped it. If tonight follows the pattern, there will probably be pepper rounds and CS gas over there.
Show threadCoach Spore DieselOct 8

Oh! And I did find a sewing kit at a little bodega. It was an entirely crap kit full of crappy tools, but I did have the pleasure of sitting on a camp stool downtown, repairing the zipper of my shoulder bag that broke in New Orleans, which has been a major inconvenience.

The crappy tools sufficed. Well, not the scissors. They were ultra flexible aluminum and could cut nothing.

Show threadCoach Spore DieselOct 8

Oh, shoot, I actually was near the ICE facility! That's by the far end of the NS streetcar.

The front desk agent where I'm staying said it was a 15 minute walk from here, in the Northwest quarter. There is a citizenship center up here, so he must have confused them.

Show threadfoundseedOct 8
@springdiesel but you also didn't even really get into the East side, either. There's a whole half of Portland that is even further removed from the hot zone, even less on fire.
Show threadCoach Spore DieselOct 8
@foundseed yeah, I really was more like in debunking mode, so I focused on downtown, west of the river.
Show threadfoundseedOct 8
@springdiesel you got all the stuff people outside will recognize as really actually Portland for real. Great circumstantial timing that this was the same day the Gnome landed, so whatever she reports will have standing dated evidence either way.