Sep 15, 2018

Portland Grand Prix

What a great weekend in Portland!

Chris and I had the opportunity to enjoy the Portland Grand Prix this Labor Day weekend, thanks to contacts through the Truss Company.  This would be my first Indy Car race.  We took advantage of this occasion and throughly enjoyed ever minute of this trip!


We left Friday afternoon on the motorcycle and took backroads to the coast.  We had lunch in Montesano at a small restaurant and then headed south, across the Astoria bridge to Seaside.  From Seaside, we headed back inland towards Portland, arriving at the hotel about 6:30.

The hotel was beautiful and we felt spoiled.  It's not often we stay in fancy hotels and this one was definitely fancy.  We walked around Portland a bit that evening and found a MOD Pizza for dinner.  We shared a yummy pizza and people watched.

Saturday and Sunday, we spent at PIR watching road racing.  We were taken care of in the Graham/Letterman/Lanigan suite just above pit road and the front stretch.  We were fed both days, given programs, hats, an autograph picture of Graham Rahal, and also had a nice tour.  Chris and I spent time walking around the track, taking in views from all of the turns.  During the main race on Sunday, Graham Rahal was involved in a first lap wreck, just the victim of circumstance.  His teammate, Takuma Sato ending up winning the race!  The highs and the lows of racing!



We were able to take in some of downtown Portland on Saturday night.  We walked the waterfront, found a place to have dinner, shopped a little bit and walked some more.  By the end of Saturday, we had close to 25,000 steps!  Our legs were tired!





We left Sunday late afternoon and had a great ride back, taking many roads that were new to us.  We never touched I-5.  On a motorcycle, back roads are much better!

It was a wonderful couple of days.  Can't wait to do it again.

Enjoying every moment.

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