Picking up where we left off last installment…We had gotten to downtown Portland and parked. We had found our way to the correct coral for ME…the others were in different corals. I decided that it was time to drop off the bag I brought and said, “I’m gonna go check the bag.” I walked over to the bag check…this is the same pretty much everywhere, garbage bag, sharpie, and a label. You dump your stuff into the garbage bag, write your bib number on the label, slap that on the bag, hand to volunteer. There were more than a few confused by this process and the poor guys working the table were explaining it over and over…
