I’m baaaaaack! Moving was the worst ever experience. I’m old, tired, and sore. Plus, I had to spend two days without internet service. Running is about the only thing that gives me peace between loading boxes of crap into my car. We’ve relocated to The Alphabet Blocks in Portland, which are located on the Northwest side of Burnside St (the true beginning of what I call the alphabet district. 

A – Alder (which doesn’t run / transverse the City as Burnside). Some list Ankeny instead. 

B – Burnside 

C- Couch (pronounced COO-ch) 

D – Davis 

E – Everett

F – Flanders

G – Glisan

H – Hoyt

I – Irving 

J – Johnson

K – Kearney (where we now live)

L – Lovejoy

M – Marshall (halfway there)

N – Northrup 

O – Overton

P – Pettygrove, 

Q – Quimby

R – Raleigh

S – Savier

T – Thurman

U – Upshur

V – Vaughn 

W – Wilson

X, Y, and Z apparently didn’t exist when these streets were originally named back in the days of yore. This sadly reminds me of the Sue Grafton book series that I started years ago with the letter A. I collected each book up through Y. Then she died leaving the letter Z to the imagination. This will be one of the casualties of downsizing for me, in the interest of space. I’ll be selling my collection today at world famous Powell’s Book Store – on Burnside at 10th, taking up a full city block on the fringe of the Alphabet District. 

It’s hard for even me to get lost in this area, since the vertical streets are all sequentially numbered. Yesterday, I ran a 3.1 mile loop that started on Kearney west to 25th Street then north to Wilson and back down 24th to Everett, eventually returning to Kearney. It’s as easy as A-B-C.