Portland

Downtown.

Heaven: Powell's Books, the largest independent bookstore in the world. The store takes up a city block, several warehouses, and several auxiliary locations around Portland. This is the main location, the City of Books-- 68,000 sq. feet; 1,000,000 books; 150 sections subdivided into 3,500 subsections. They give you a map when you walk in, and that's the directory in the picture.

An aisle of the poetry section, in the Blue Room. The entire store is color-coded.
Books are used and new and (mostly) cheap.

In the sci-fi section, a pillar has been dedicated to autographs. That's Neil Gaiman.

My hotel room was like something out of a Heatmiser song.

Waving cats, in a store called Monkey King.


For a Yorkie?

Shout out to: Luis Medina, esq.
From: Chinatown in Portland.

I found an arcade with a bar in it. It was called Ground Control.
I beat the 94-95 Dallas Mavericks.

Record store.

Voodoo Donuts specializes in bizarre pastries. When Bourdain went there for an episode of No Reservations, he had a maple-syrup donut topped with bacon. I just couldn't do that. So: an oreo donut.

Elephant.