Via - May/June 2014 - California - (Page 47)

hen explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived on the verdant, forested land that is now Portland, they carried with them a small, silver-plated compass with two brass sight vanes, all contained in an elegant mahogany frame. If you want to go exploring in Portland today, you probably don't need such a fine tool, but the city is still ruled by the compass-and neatly divided into quadrants by two intersecting lines on the map. One line curves along with the Willamette River, dividing the west side of Portland from the east, and the other follows ramrodstraight Burnside Avenue, splitting the city's north from its south. The result: four cities within a city, four lovely little worlds, each with its own wonders to discover, and an emblematic neighborhood begging for an exploratory stroll. I AAA VIA 47

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