Upcoming plans

I did a group hike at Oak's Bottom which goes around and base of The Portland Mausoleum. No one in the group had been in. I linked my gallery of pictures of the the inside to the group. The grouper's leader got excited and has booked a tour of the inside as an upcoming 'hike'. The Mausoleum is no longer open to the general public. I've used tours to get in, but I've never actually stayed with that tour before. I guess I will this time. My gallery has images I've taken on various trips years apart, including back when it was public and the electricity largely did not work. So I need to make a list of shots I still want. I haven't gotten pictures I am really happy with of the fountains. I also want to grab snaps of all the floor layout signs by the elevator to create a map of the place.

I need to finish booking Alaska this week.

I managed to snag a Murderboat ticket for June, so I need to be back for that. Murderboat is a local event company that put on a concert on a plane turned into a house last fall and they are going that again in June. That someone bought a plane, stuck it in the woods and made it into a house is one of those 'Pacific NW Oddities' that makes a lot of listicles and other things. The house went up for sale a while back. Someone decided to jump on that and got permission to do an event there. I don't know the current status of the plane/house, but I have tickets for a concert there. A concert of ... um... I have no idea what sort of music or even if they booked a band. I don't really care. I just want access to the planehouse.

I am trying to plan for a train trip and a car trip coming up. There are some trails in Southern Oregon I really want to do, and I need to actually get out there. Also the GOP are ramping up attacks on Amtrak. Now they are using privately funded think tanks to publish articles to sway opinions. Hopefully these attacks also fail, but I need to do the California Zephyr while it exists.

I walked all of: Missippi Avenue and then continued on Albina

I walked at least 6.9 miles. Missippi was really cute. It's not very long, so I switched over to Albina and kept walking North. I got at least one shot for a photo project of mine.

I started at a nearby sandwich shop. They advertising being allergy friendly and I'd been excited to try it. I went in and...

Me: I can't have dairy or soy. What can I eat? Are some of your specials good for that?

Her: Here are our vegan meats and this is our gluten free bread.

Me: Uh.... okay?

So, yeah, not so much. The manager came out and said I'd have to special order. I wound up spending 2x what I expected. It was good, but it was also a $12 roast beef sandwich. Also, I love places where my food problems aren't a hassle and I can just order food. Having the manager give me a dead stare like I am the universe manifesting to complicate his day is not my idea of a good time, especially at a place that advertises as allergy friendly.

I did better at Townsend Tea where I got a soy/dairy/dye free bubble tea made with their very good black tea and botanically sourced rose. Very sweet and calorie filled, but good. And yeah, easy ordering.