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[Upbeat Happy Guitar Music]
- Like a 10 to 15 minute
drive outside of Portland,
there's a place called the Sandy River.
Which is a gorgeous,
clear water river with
beautiful stones and a sandy beach.
Which is mostly like dusty
dirt, but it's gorgeous.
And picnic tables and
forest and everything just
look at it. It's stunning.
[Upbeat Happy Guitar Music]
3 out of 4 of us were
completely naked at the
river and I wasn't one of them.
- I was. I just think
nakedness shouldn't be a thing.
Like, who cares? We
have these like bodies,
everyone knows what they look like.
Why? Why do we hide it?
- Maybe we'll start naked vlogging.
[Upbeat Guitar Music]
- An absolute must-do, don't argue with me
is Powell's. It's the best
bookstore in the world,
if not the universe.
You don't know there could
be bookstores anywhere.
And we have a tradition,
where we walk around,
we all find a book and
we come back together,
and tell each other why
we chose the book and then
we get that book and it's
wonderful and we talk
and hang out and bond and
well, you can just imagine,
it's a jolly good time. Okay, so do it.
[Upbeat Guitar Music]
- [Iz] We're gonna go over here. Come on.
[Upbeat Guitar Music]
- Alright we have our
Powell's books and now
we are going to head to do what Portland
does best which is food carts.
[Chilled Hip Hop Music]
- Food carts are spreading throughout
the United States, but
Portland is really, like
- [Iz] The original
- The original. These
pods throughout the city -
- Oh it's actually, it's
youtube.com/izharris
I don't know, did you
think we were doing a
vlog for youtube.com/johnnyharris?
- [Johnny] No. I didn't think that.
I was just trying to give
context to your little spiel
- Food carts. Big deal here.
- [Johnny] Yeah they go back to like
- Okay Borders.
- No, but for real, there's
a really interesting
thing here, which is that
the policy here is very
liberal for food carts and because of that
they've spread throughout
the entire city, these pods.
But now, what's happening
is they're being crowded
out by gentrification because
all these tech companies
are moving in to Portland.
- [Iz] That's true.
- And are disrupting the food cart scene
- Well now you're making
me look like a jerk.
- [Johnny] You're a jerk!
- It's true and it's a sad story.
- It's a sad story. This
is actually a story,
this is turning into an
investigation. Sorry.
The vlogs over.
- [Iz] No!
- Cue the Borders theme song.
[Chilled Hip Hop Music]
- What can I do for ya?
- [Johnny] So I'm gonna
go with the jalapeno.
[Chilled Hip Hop Music]
- One of Portland's
greatest assets is Mt. Hood
[Child Talking In Background]
- Which is an amazing mountain
that is surrounded by some
of the most beautiful
forest I have ever been in.
- You can get to Mt. Hood
just with an hour long drive
and you're in the mountains.
You can go skiing,
snowboarding, sledding. Or in the summer,
you can swim in a mountain lake.
[Mellow Guitar Music]
- [Johnny] You ready to go shopping?
- Yeah.
[Mellow Guitar Music]
- We're on the Pacific
Crest Trail, which is a
trail that goes from,
all the way from Canada
to Mexico. Pro-trip: Use a timer and
- [Johnny] Pro-trip?
- Pro-trips.
- [Johnny] Are you saying that you're
- Use a timer! Tell your
kid that they're gonna
walk for 4 minutes and
they get held for 3.
And they loved pressing the timer
buttons 'cause I'm a genius, right??
Let's go! We gotta walk first.
- [Child] Then the yellow button comes.
- [Johnny] Then you get
to press the yellow button
after 4 minutes of
walking. Go! Walk. Walk.
- [Child] Then I go on you?
- [Johnny] Then you get
to go on my shoulders.
[Mellow Guitar And Singer]
- One of the best parts about Portland
and the West Coast in general, is that
they just kill it with breakfast.
So, there's like hundreds
of phenomenal options
in Portland and I can't
direct you to just one.
So, like try biscuits and gravy, biscuits,
anything biscuits. Just
anything home style.
Okay? Cause it's so good
and they do it so well here.
But then, also try the hip, modern, fancy
avocado toast because
that's also incredible.
With a really good latte.
There's like 12 places
that do that perfectly.
And then you have to try
the fusion or like the kind of stuff where
they like take it ...
Oliver's having a hard time
The kind of stuff where
they take it next level.
There's a PB & J place that
does it on challah bread.
And like with bacon and
goat cheese and you're just
like ... Okay, I'll live here.
This morning, we're hitting up a classic
cafe called Genie's. It
is just a straight up
diner and it's so, so good.
[Soul 1950's Music]
- So good. The huevos rancheros were ...
- [Johnny] Yeah, I'll
grab the check, yeah.
- The huevos rancheros were bomb as was
everything. Just eat all,
breakfast for breakfast,
lunch, dinner, dessert when you're here.
Nothing, nothing beats
a Portland breakfast.
- Portland's farmer's markets
are unlike any farmer's
market in that there is just legit,
like serious farmers here
and they're in abundance.
And then there's just a ton
of amazing food as well.
[Chilled Hip Hop Music]
- I was like raised in Oregon and in the
Pacific Northwest. And
thought that a massive
farmer's market was the norm.
And then you move to D.C.
and it's like 1 city block.
Maybe. It's not okay.
[Man Playing Cello]
- Cheese!
- Cheese! We're at the
Rose Gardens. The roses
usually bloom around
June and last throughout
the summer. They last for awhile.
[Chilled Hip Hop Music]
- One of the other great
things about the Rose Garden,
if you have kids is the
playground, is pretty epic.
[Chilled Hip Hop Music]
- [Johnny] No touch. Say bye!
- [Iz] Henry, what is it?
- [Johnny] Sushi train.
[Mellow Guitar Music]
- We're heading out of town. This was
such, this is so dirty.
I don't know. We're heading out of town.
And this week was so good. It was so much
family time with Johnny's family - bleh!
It was nice to be back home in the Pacific
Northwest. See old friends.
[Train Horn]
Shut up train!
- Train's coming!
- He's always happy.
- [Johnny] The train's coming.
- Anyway ...
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