Exploring the city of Portland -- June 3, 2025 It was now time to explore the city. Unfortunately, we started the drive in rush hour, so it was stop and go traffic. Our first stop was parking in Washington Park in the Veterans Parking Lot; it was a pay lot. We did later see pull offs in the park that would have been free to park in. This was near, so we started in the Veterans Memorial, which is the cool circular walkway in the pictures below. Then we went through, at least some, of the Hoyt Arboretum. From the Arboretum, we went to the Hoyt Visitor Center to visit the restroom and catch the free shuttle. It took a while to come and to get the live tracking to work, but Travis got it work and then it came. We rode to the Rose Garden on the other side of the park. The shuttle was in the park and along some residential streets; it went up and down hills. The International Rose Test Garden had hundreds of different roses with specimens of the test/experimental winner...
