A warm visit and a moving experience

It just so happened that on the same day a Portland friend was moving, a friend from Spokane (Kelsey) was visiting the Portland area.

Flexing my quazi-spontaneous muscle, Kelsey and I were going to choose where to go for the morning visit once we got up there. Having a couple of hours before the moving began, we chose to grab breakfast at a place that was recommended after a virtual visit online, called the Paradise Cafe in Bridgeport Plaza. The food was good, the fresh squeezed oj was great, and catching up and encouraging one another under some trees on a warm summer morning helped the cafe live up to its name a little more.

Then it was off to flex the quazi-moving muscles. Albeit an all-too-brief visit with the folks I used to spend more time around, it was well worth it. Since the move to and move from locations were there in the same city, we helped on both ends for about 5 hours or so. What could have been drudgery for a person on one's own turned into an industrious afternoon filled with laughter, food, sweat, and lots of water. And laughter.

Once all was said and done, I headed over to Laurelhurst Park to cool off and catch up with a

couple other local folks.

After a good full day, I headed back home to gear up for another week.