Next stop Portland!

Saturday morning and head to the Seattle King St train station, ready to catch an Amtrak train to Portland.

Note - we are now travelling with 5 bags, an increase of 1 in just under a week.

Our train journey will last 4 hours, but the people we stand next to in the queue will be on the train for 35 hours, as they are heading to Los Angeles. Makes our journey seem quite light weight!

We make the novice mistake of not asking for seats on the river side,  so photo opportunities are limited.  We are however, at the back of the train, so my photos are pretty much all railway tracks with the odd bridge thrown in!

We arrive at Portland Station...

.... and it's pouring with rain, and we are too early for our Airbnb accommodation.  We trail our bags soggily around town for a bit, until we find a lovely Bistro called Mother's Bistro

It bills itself as having cooking just like your own mother's!  Fortuntately, this is not true in my case!  Sorry mum!  :-) 

We eventually jump into a cab to get to our accommodation, and find that we are really quite far away from downtown.  Even though the place we are staying is lovely and cosy, we are at least a 20 minute ride from town, and we don't have a car!  Have we made a big mistake....?