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My CRV brought me and most of my worldly belongings more than 900 miles
to the East Coast in September of 2000. |
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This was the view from inside my apartment |
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Downtown Portland, as seen from the fire escape on my building |
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Portland is a peninsula, and not a very wide one. There's a decent grade
from both edges up toward the center... and because I walked from one side
to the other on my way to work, I actually DID walk uphill both ways! |
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In 1866 Portland was annihilated by the "Great Fire" that left
10,000 people homeless and destroyed the entire financial and trade center
of the city. The city was rebuilt in (fireproof) red brick to avoid another
such disaster, and many of the buildings are still standing today. |
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The public market, one of my favorite places in Portland |
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a pretty church... |
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The downtown area right next to the wharfs of Portland is called the Old
Port and is full of shops, galleries, bars and coffeehouses. |
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There are also open-air restaurants and shops out on the wharfs themselves. |
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The harbor is on the south side of Portland- on the north side is Back Cove,
which has a nice 3.5 mile walking path around it. If you walk it at low
tide, though, you get 3.5 miles of slimey mud smell. |
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Several of the streets in the Old Port are cobblestone or brick, which lend
a lot of character but also make it difficult to walk. |
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The commercial wharfs of the harbor |
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Underneath the bridge connecting Portland and South Portland across the
harbor |
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The city of Portland from the bridge |
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An old dock stretching into the harbor from South Portland |
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A deserted building in South Portland frames two people holding hands. |
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The obligatory lighthouse shot, but one of my favorite photographs. This
lighthouse is called the Bug Light and is on the northeast corner of South
Portland. |
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