A place we have been to all before......(Zum,Zum's end wish it wasn't though pt.17 of 17)

Oh No don't say has reached this dear readers.....,
 Well I don't like to think I have to bring this year's vacation tune to an what is the best word I really want to wield here...is it "KA-BLEWEE, the return of the real world awaits!, or Too Much fun is a worthy fight to just try and grip or cling on too at the last seconds in getting away from it all! No matter of how I splice and dice it together I have to say this is the last of this very countdown. So let's see what else we my folks and I ended up doing in a place known as Portland, Oregon. The last time that my mother and I were here was in October of nineteen ninety two. I remember it so very well because we had just the two of us came up for the weekend to go see the Portland art museum and also that very weekend was the one when Star Trek The Next Generation aired the episode every Star Trek fan loves Yelp I'm speaking the one with James Doohan in it titled

"RELICS".  That was fun for one of the many things we also did was we went to a one of a kind book store, which we are seen doing in this very trek of time as well in fact here I am

, just outside of that very famous place. Mom went in for coffee, Chuck went to the travel section to find another book for their travels to Sydney, Australia some time for next year or maybe this upcoming winter time in Cuenca, Ecuador of their own adventures without me tagging along. And I had happen to head to you know what section of choice the one that is so dear and near to my beating heart. That being of course the Sci-Fi area where my soul just melted into a home I hadn't seen since well since my last time at Adventures Underground in my home town of Richland Washington. In fact  while looking up and down those full shelves of science fiction delight I saw this one shelf seen here

that had most of the books of my current series that I reading now by Gini Koch. It was at that moment as I was looking at them the fourteenth book with in the series was out and even though I'm on book three I know you have a long way to go right....!  I also went over to their graphic novel sections and saw two really cool Steve Dittko comic collections one was "Weird Tales" which looked like it was outside of his Marvel works before nineteen fifty six till when he left the company in ten years later. The other one was some of his works collected from the "CREEPY" titled comic that was just before he worked directly with the house of ideas. Then after leaving Powell's we went and took a bus over to the Saturday market place and visited part of downtown Portland that I had never heard of seriously I didn't know of this till my mom had spoke of it late last night after we had gone to Burgerville   after Chuck and I returned from seeing Captain America: Civil War. Here is a really the only thing that I got photos of while at the Saturday Market 

 these three shirts with a pug the top two remind me of my boss Kelsey at Albertsons and her own pug named Max. The Green one with Doxisaurus really hit home for me of my brother Michael and his family and one of their two dogs that is known as Suzie. The last one is to show just a tiny portion of how big it has really grown since they started in the mid nineteen nineties.  

      After going through some really neat vendors that had stuff of wallets to fancy jewelry my folks and I went over to a place that they always eat at while here in Portland It's a family owned restaurant called

which happens to be over a hundred years old. While waiting for our food to come to us I went around the room and got several plates that had photos in them. Like these seen here

these all told the story of how this very restaurant had started out and here is what I had there

which was my last chance at some good ol calamari in what gonna be a very long while as we walked back over to the train station we made a couple more stops along the way back to the Saturday Market and right beside the restaurant was a very neat doughnut shop that I felt needed to be part of my collection of my twenty sixteen vacation

,just because it stood out to me as well. As we walked back through the Saturday Market and I got a cool poster of Jean Luc Picard sayings for a guy that made posters out of popular pop culture stuff we finally got to the train station which is seen here

and we boarded our train which took us till about the time I have posted as the release of this very post before we got into the train station in Pasco, and my folks brought me to my house after that small wait time at the train station for the Best Western hotel shuttle van to pick us up, and take us to their final hotel staying place.