Beyond Downtown Portland cool… Just 15′ ride on MAX Light Rail to Washington Park and the scenery changes completely. The park is so huge they offer a free shuttle service looping around the park’s main attractions, but we thought we’d take a trail through the Arboretum that would eventually lead us to the Japanese Garden. Eventually it didn’t (we got lost on the way* and switched to one of the main roads skirting the park; more ”urban” but no less stimulating, lined as it was with beautiful houses, completely surrounded by nature). 
*All trails are clearly marked, some of them paved. We got lost only because we were taking shortcuts, thinking they would lead us faster to our destination.
Portland, OR
June 8th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 