Monday, August 26, 2013

Keep Portland Cleared

Last weekend, my wife and I road-tripped South to one of our favorite weekend destinations.  Portland is a great place to visit, and a fantastic place to eat.   We had beer and sandwiches at The Side Door, a wonderful foodie experience streetside at Clyde Common (one of my absolute favorite Portland restaurants – I took my best friend and 6 of his best friends there when he got married this spring), brunched at Jamison, and assuaged our sweet tooths at Cupcake Jones and Cool Moon.  It was, as always, a wonderful culinary treat.

As we wrapped up a post-brunch visit with some good friends from San Francisco and prepared to get in the car for the ride home, it suddenly occurred to me that I’d missed my One Piece on Saturday and was dangerously close to missing Sunday as well.  I perked up and looked around Jamison Square.  I saw people – lots of people – milling about, having fun, strolling the street.  And… no garbage.  I thought back over the last 24 hours.  We were out on the street, out in public, in a very lively urban city, for two days, and not once did an errant soda bottle or diaphanous garbage bag waft into my view.  Either Portland is one of the cleanest cities around, or I’m losing my touch.

I strolled around the park, and after hunting a bit, managed to find a discarded hamburger wrapper and nearby, the discarded mylar covering from an energy bar.  And into a nearby trash bin it went.

Rock on, PDXicans – keep it weird, and keep on keeping it clean!


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