Day 4 Zero day?

I can’t quite call it a Zero day (zero miles) but the miles I did weren’t on a fully loaded bike.

First, I got up pretty early to ride downtown from Portland’s Southeast neighborhoods so I could participate in “Breakfast on the Bridges”. Portland has 12 bridges across the Willamette River that you can walk or ride a bike across. On four of those bridges a group called “Shift” serves up free coffee and breakfast from 7:00-9:00am on the last Friday of each month. So I rode down to the Tilikum Crossing bridge which has no cars! It has walking and riding lanes each direction and a light rail line going down the middle. There were donuts, cinnamon rolls, fruit, cookies and coffee. It was nice to talk to a Shift volunteer and some other folks.

My son had an appointment with a guidance counselor at Portland State so I had a little time to play with so just after eating a donut down on the bridge, I headed to a bakery of course.

Not just any bakery, I went to Tabor Bread. I had visited them back when my son was attending Reed College. In fact they were kind enough to let me come in to see some of their early morning production. They had a massive wood fired oven and a flour mill that I was interested. They even let me work a bit. I took some pictures of the baker working the oven and shared them as a thank you. Since then they have moved to a new location and no longer bake in a wood fired oven but they have not lost the magic.

My son and I had a great rest of the day. We went to the Oregon Zoo, my son got us in for free because he works for Metro who also manages the zoo. We had a great lunch at Obon Shokudo (a Japanese restaurant), did some shopping and went out for pizza at Baby Doll Pizza. Both restaurants were top level.