After our fun night out last night, drinking beer in a bar 30 stories above the city, we've had a fairly easy going day but managed to see plenty of Portland.We started off the day with a big breakfast at Byways Cafe, just down the road from the hostel, before taking a walk to Powell's City of Books, the largest independent used and new book store in the world. Covering a whole city block over 4 floors, the place was massive. We managed to find some 2nd hand trav...

We have returned from the wilderness.After 3 days of some of the most amazing scenery and most extreme conditions, we've made it to Portland where it was a pleasant 20 degress earlier.Our latest adventure began on Friday morning when we left Seattle and caught the ferry over to Bainbridge Island. From there we drove up to Highway 101 which loops round the whole Olympic Peninsula. Our first stop was at Port Angeles, the main town on the peninsula. Here, we saw the...