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Mon, 15 Sep 2008

God bless America! Because no one else will.

Likely I'm just kidding, but...

First, Portland met me with the excellent weather. Just bloody perfect one, about 25-30 degrees Centigrade, now rain or cold winds. Very nice.

Second, hotel is quite good, with couple of exceptions though: they do not have european-to-american electricity socket adapter. They do not even have a meter of wire, so that I could create it myself. They have american to UK one though.

There are no 24 hours opened shops except Starbucks. I found one small food shop though, which did not sold me a bear until 7 AM, I was wished a good breakfast with 6 bottles of Bud. In Moscow it was 6 PM. Actually currently I think I already do not suffer from the jetlag, although wake up at 4-5 AM local time.

Portland is a quite small city. I managed to walk around central district for several hours. And it is slow. In that regard, that there is no some kind of a life flow, no energy, no drive... It is likely a perfect place to raise childrens or draw pictures (Portland has excellent nature) though.

I made several photos during the walk around the city (even listened for live music in so called Portland Saturday Market, where people sell hand-made stuff, there are couple of real gems there I think) as long as Linux kernel summit ones, but becaue of slow internet access I will not publish them yet, expect gallery update in a week or so.

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