Hey everybody,
As I write this I am about 36,000 feet in the air and traveling from the frigid Minneapolis airport to the tropical regions of South Carolina. We have been in Portland, OR this weekend and were blown away by how beautiful a place it was. Everybody says that it is a rainy, dreary place… but that is not what we found. It was sunny everyday and the temp was in the high 50’s.
Not only is the place beautiful, but the culture and people are great! Even though at times it was a little weird for us southern hospitality, Bible-belt people. We found great places to eat, spent a good deal of time riding their amazing public transportation system that was free… and then we decided to come back again, next time for the outdoors. We did not experience anything but the city scene.
The city was a veritable potpourri of people; from Goth, to punk, to the trendy guys wearing the tight girl’s pants, to the hippie tree hugging types, to people just like Liz and I. There were people of every ethnicity under the sun. We saw the highly affluent and the homeless walking the same streets. For us it was a sort of healthy culture shock; one that I believe every person should experience regularly. Every person should spend time as an outsider in culture not their own. It stretches us to love people of every type, even when we are uncomfortable.
I am not allowed to tell you what we found out about the program yet… you will hear soon enough. Here are a couple of pictures to tide you over.
As I write this I am about 36,000 feet in the air and traveling from the frigid Minneapolis airport to the tropical regions of South Carolina. We have been in Portland, OR this weekend and were blown away by how beautiful a place it was. Everybody says that it is a rainy, dreary place… but that is not what we found. It was sunny everyday and the temp was in the high 50’s.
Not only is the place beautiful, but the culture and people are great! Even though at times it was a little weird for us southern hospitality, Bible-belt people. We found great places to eat, spent a good deal of time riding their amazing public transportation system that was free… and then we decided to come back again, next time for the outdoors. We did not experience anything but the city scene.
The city was a veritable potpourri of people; from Goth, to punk, to the trendy guys wearing the tight girl’s pants, to the hippie tree hugging types, to people just like Liz and I. There were people of every ethnicity under the sun. We saw the highly affluent and the homeless walking the same streets. For us it was a sort of healthy culture shock; one that I believe every person should experience regularly. Every person should spend time as an outsider in culture not their own. It stretches us to love people of every type, even when we are uncomfortable.
I am not allowed to tell you what we found out about the program yet… you will hear soon enough. Here are a couple of pictures to tide you over.
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