Portland's Public Transportation and Bookstore

We took the train to downtown Portland from Rock Creek to go to Powell's Books, which is hands down, my favorite bookstore in the world. It is huge, they have many new and used titles, and you can sit in their coffee shop and read all day. M and I picked up Rediscovering America: John Muir In His Time and Ours by Frederick Turner, which is perfect reading for our journey.

Portland's public transportation is pretty good - $4 will get you a ride-all-day pass, but all of the streetcards and buses downtown are free anyway. The system was clean and on time, as far as we know, although we are feeling a bit more lax about schedules these days.