I have to catch an early flight out of Portland tomorrow so I booked motel room near the airport. It's a decent motel but in a seedy (even by Portland standards) neighborhood full of strip clubs and run down apartments. As I type this I can see four hookers on the street in cheap lingerie shaking their wares at cars passing by. I didn't know hookers came in such large sizes. Across the street, some middle eastern man's car stalled and rolled into the street. Their trying to push it back into the parking lot of the run down apartment where they live. I may go down and do some interesting street photography after while.

When in Portland…..

Stay far away. Behind locked door with shades drawn. No good can come from this photographic adventure.

For some reason this reminded me of the old thread where the guy set up the game cam to catch the lunchtime lovers. No payoff there either.

I went for a quick walk and they weren't around. It's cooling off and they're so skimpily clad their either occupied, or just cold. This whole area is the star wars bar scene. People watching must be fantastic around here.

Rule... *gulp*... one....

Do they get paid by the pound?

So no wildlife photos or dime pieces tonight?

I'd stay away, even fat ugly chicks have a pimp

After supper, I walked out where they used to loiter. It was already dark. A black woman in a skimpy skirt asked me if I wanted to come hang out with her in her room. It was too dark for photos and I'd rather go watch Rockford Files reruns than stir up much more drama to night.

Did you go back to the room and make a grilled cheese?

I was in Vegas a few months ago for a work event. I tend to wake up unreasonably early each day (as you can see by the time of this post). I get up, and then go find something for breakfast, which is not as easy as it used to be in Vegas. Few options are open 24 hours now.

Each morning at about 3 am while walking to find something to eat, I was propositioned by a hooker, each morning, they were worse than the previous one, and the first one was not good.

However, the first one was helpful in pointing out some food options.

Not to derail but a few years back my buddy (he'll probably see this) and I did a multi-day devils river trip all the way from barkers crossing to the Amistad Marina. It turned into a sh*t show when the river flooded the second night but we rode it out anyways. Anyway we finally made it to the Amistad Marina and just wanted something to drink besides filtered river/lake water.

I went up to this old guy running the place and asked if they had anything and he said "No but we have hookers out back". I just laughed it off thinking "well that doesn't do me any good". When our ride got to the marina and we left, wouldn't you know, there's a little restaurant/convenience store named hookers right next to the Marina. I'll never forget that little miscommunication without laughing a little.

This plays out like a Ray Wylie Hubbard song if you put some spaces between the verses.

marcel ledbetter said:

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I have to catch an early flight out of Portland tomorrow so I booked motel room near the airport. It's a decent motel but in a seedy (even by Portland standards) neighborhood full of strip clubs and run down apartments.

As I type this I can see four hookers on the street in cheap lingerie shaking their wares at cars passing by. I didn't know hookers came in such large sizes.

Across the street, some middle eastern man's car stalled and rolled into the street. Their trying to push it back into the parking lot of the run down apartment where they live. I may go down and do some interesting street photography after while.

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Of course the Portland swat team is across the street serving a search warrant! I heard flag bangs going off earlier but didn't know what they were. It's like a movie set. They're still there calling for the people to come out. I'm catching a shuttle to the airport in a few minutes. Edit for spelling

Going live from Portland, Oregon!

You might want to wake up earlier in the future and stay in a better area.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

The Portland SWAT is kinda feminine

Damn that burger was good getting off the Devils. We all have support your local Hookers hats from that place.

Good times!!

You appear to select hotels the way ursusguy chose foods. Seemed like his metric was "it'll make a turd"! The Hyatt place at cascade station is like 5mins from PDX and it's never cost me more than $175 a night! I made the mistake of staying in downtown Portland on one of my trips and it was a sight to behold. Reminded me of the worst parts of Austin, before the camping ban came back, but everywhere!

"It's a decent motel but in a seedy (even by Portland standards)"......