Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Exploring downtown at the Doggie Dash

 

What a gorgeous weekend we had.  Today's Saturday (yeah, I know post dated blog....) and it's time for the yearly doggie dash in downtown.   You can see the "Portland Oregon" sign in the background. It had many previous slogans but the stag has been on top of that sign for a long long time.

Navy really took to this part of the walk.  He loves the bridges, the water, and the path along the water.  Probably reminds him of his time at sea. 

Besides doggie dashers (that's us) there were a ton of people out.  Bikers, walkers, runners and many dogs. 


Downtown did not disapoint.  That big pink tower to the right, guess what it's nickname is...

Yep, it's Big Pink. Now we are on the other side of theriver looking east.  
Finally, one last shot of all of us (great picture eh) but the Hawthorne Bridge looks good.  Did you know that Hawthorne ran one of the first insane asylums in Portland?
Cocoa has found something interesting....

Ah yes, Mill Ends Park, the World's smallest park.  This park has quite the history, it started as a creative writing project by a journalist in 1946.  He would often describe the lives of leprechauns who resided at the park. According to Fagan (the journalists, this was the only leprechaun colony east of Ireland and the department of transportation actually had to move the park on the rebuild of the road, Mill Ends Park now resides 6 inches west of its previous location).  For those of you who are dying to know, its 452 square inches (0.00007205784 acres). 


4 comments:

  1. How did Sequoia like the doggie dash? Did he get a medal?

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    1. Yes he did (it was one of those races where everybody gets a medal)

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  2. 452 square inches? Wow... that's... small... According to Google... that is just a circle with a diameter of 2 feet. Wow. How many leprechauns can dance in that space? Or stuffies?

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  3. Lots of leprechauns, not as many stuffies as one would think.

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