1.  Even modern buildings have fire escapes and exterior standpipes.
2.  Aggressively marked bike lanes - is there even one "Yield to Cyclist"
sign in New York?  I saw scores in Portland.
3.  Sidewalk embossed inscription:  "Mike's Concrete, 1993"  (no credit taken
for gum deposits).
4   Skiing the top of Mount Hood - like climbing a ladder and coming out on
top of the roof of the world.
5.  Pietro Belluschi's 1932 Portland Art Museum - exterior so-so, but
interior an elegant collision of classical training and modern attitudes.  A
delicate version of Italian fascist architecture.
6.      Yamhill (hometown of Beverly Cleary) - depressed, really depressed.
The sign on the biggest structure in town said it all:  "Building for Sale -
All or Part".
7.      Timberline Lodge, on Mount Hood - a complete design (1937, U. S.
Forest Service + artists), fully worked out, with hand wrought metalwork
(right down to the room locks), paintings, tapestries and carved wooden
friezes, and European-style timbering.  A thinking person's Mohonk Mountain
House.
8.  Air views were terrific, but road atlases are poor for such uses - is
there an "aerial atlas" of the US specifically for air passengers?

Sign me,  Lewis N. Clark