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My Portland To-do list

My travel to Portland, the city of Roses, is going to start in a few hours. I have always loved being a globetrotter....visiting different places, trying different fun things, meeting a lot of new people...all of it. I am not much of a planner though. I have being to places and gone with the flow. This time, I wanted to do things a little differently. This time, I thought of making a to-do list of all the things I would like to do, see, eat, drink etc in Portland. Everytime I complete executing one task, I will tick it off. Lets see, by the time I am back in India, how many of these items can I get done with!



Action items:

Things to do:

Try out some Voodoo Donuts
Try out some S'more pudding


Check out some alcohol free Portland nightlife (one of them surely is the Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade) 
(Totally missed it)


Things to see:

Portland Art Museum
Powell's City of Books
Portland Audubon
Benson Bubblers


Forest Park
International Rose Test Garden
Multnomah Falls

I am sure this list is going to be modified on the go, as and when I get to explore the city a little more.
P.S. - Ofcourse all of these action items are to be executed only after the work hours of the work-week.

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