PORTLAND - Amazing Croissants, Best Pizza Deal & My Bus Horror Story! 😱 | Travel Vlog

[@larryjex6485]

I used to live in Portland, and it normally doesn't get that hot, but it does happen from time to time. A great place to cool off is Cannon Beach, about an hour west of town, or Mt Hood, were you can snow ski in the summer. If you ever get up there again, check out the aerial tram at the south waterfront, and Pittock Mansion, both of which have incredible views of the city.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you for the suggestions! I definitely want to visit the coast and the many nature destinations up there in the future. 👍🏼

[@rho008]

Just visited Portland, OR a few weeks ago. I loved it. Enjoy the look of the houses and all the hiking you can do. Enjoyed the vibe as well. Great background music.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you! I'll need to do more nature activities next time!

[@seaofsheba]

I really enjoyed this video! I was born and raised in Oregon and moved to Oklahoma 7 years ago and I miss it so much! This was fun to watch.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

So glad you enjoyed the video @shebaelizabeth! Thank you for leaving a comment. Hope you get to visit Oregon soon! 😊

[@lexyjeanette]

Your editing style is incredible! This was a highly enjoyable vlog to watch. Thanks for sharing your experience. 😊

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you so much for those encouraging words! 😊😊🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@alejandroconde9898]

I loved Portland when I went pre-pandemic. Biking is the best way to around though. Loved the video and well edited. I hope the channel keeps growing!

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you @alejandroconde9898! Appreciate the encouragement! ☺ I wish I could've biked around instead as well but I think it still would've been too hot for that. Would definitely be fun to rent a bike on a future trip though!

[@KrimsonKracker]

Generally great video, love the music choice! Couple notes: 1) Portland's consensus "best" pizza restaurant is A Pizza Scholls (New York style artisan pies). Located around 47th and Hawthorne in SE Portland (great area), it's been repeatedly nationally recognized and is held in high regard by foody pizza snobs EVERYWHERE. 2) "The bus reeks of urine" is not a headline of noteworthiness, in any city... ever. 😜

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you! I really wanted to check out Apizza Scholls but Life of Pie Pizza was within walking distance of my airbnb... plus I can't pass up a good happy hour deal! Hopefully, I'll get to try it next time. 🙂

[@gregbors8364]

New Haven* style

[@apinchofrainbow]

My husband and I will be visiting soon, Thanks for the great recommendations and tips!!

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

So glad you found it useful! Hope you guys have a wonderful time out there! 😊

[@denisestinnett4414]

Hey, Portland is a gem ❤. Everywhere has their issues.

[@RileyRoams]

That is a great happy hour deal and that pizza looks delicious! 🍕 thanks for sharing! -Candice, Andrew, and Riley 🐾

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you Candice, Andrew, and Riley! Very cool you guys travel with your furbaby! 😍

[@terryk5928]

I liked that you ended it with the German Pancake from Elmer's, despite weird trumbone. Whoever told you to try that gave you good advice.

[@MindyTunnell]

You were here the one week it hit 100s last year. It was insane. It's happened 2 or 3 times this year. As a transplanted Alaskan in January 2023 I loved it, but I'm REALLY excited about fall happening right now 😂

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

I know, just my luck. I'm sure heat waves will be more and more frequent though... 😭 Fall weather is my favorite.

[@niviad4497]

Very cool and informative ❤

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you! Glad you found it informative as well! 😊😊

[@tommackay7433]

I stayed a week down in Portland on my way toArizona and enjoyed the best food I’ve had in eight years.

[@dave.in.oregon]

Welcome to Portland (nearly a year late). Glad you enjoyed your time here. Your food selection was spot on. All looked good. Especially Khao Moo Dang (I need to try that). It's not always THAT hot up here. Come back. It's beautiful and GREEEEEEN!!! I've spent the past 16 years in Temecula, CA where it was HOT, dry and brown before moving up here in 2020. Love it.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

I would love to visit Portland again and Oregon as a whole. Loved the food I tried and glad you agree! 😊

[@cynthiamclellan6745]

I missed the bus horror - I must have blinked🤣

[@Pdx616]

She mentioned it being hotter than LA. I've lived in PDX my whole life, fifty plus years and the weather is hotter than it's ever been the last ten or so years and the winters are getting more extreme too.

[@y2k_88]

Omg just found u. I wanna go back to visit!

[@jayreed9370]

We're coming to Portland in a month, don't mind me while I take notes and use your restaurant recommendations as a checklist!

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Oh good! Let me know if you get to try any of them!

[@piyusha3571]

love your vibe

[@betsymunoz5832]

not sure if i missed it but what neighborhood did you stay in? Im visiting soon for the first time.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

I stayed near the Alberta Arts District. 😊

[@betsymunoz5832]

@@SarahtheEnthusiast thanks so much for replying, i was actually looking to stay in that area.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

I was also interested in staying in the Hawthorne District too but ultimately found the best Airbnb in Alberta. They are both very walkable I think. Both were near restaurants and cafes I wanted to try.

[@deidrecalabro5725]

You were right down the street the Chinese garden from Powells... Next time🎉

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Oh! I didn’t know about it. Thank you for the recommendation. Next time!

[@allalukyanova6328]

❤❤❤

[@Dusky672]

Oof you visited the same week my sister came to visit Oregon...right in the middle of one of the worst heat waves possible! Normally it is mid to high 80s with a cool 60 or so in the morning in August. I would definitely avoid public transit in practically any big city sadly. When I lived in Nashville, bus riding was...off the table. They've started to fight back to clean up the city which was left to its own devices during covid and recently repealed the decriminalization of drugs. I'd never listen to anyone that talks like Portland is 3rd world (like some living there do or ones outside Portland that just listen to Fox Tabloid). Compared to similar sized cities like Nashville, the violent crime is much lower. Homeless issues are a problem in every major city. Hopefully you can re-visit and see many of the beautiful nature areas in Oregon! Nature will always be the #1 reason to visit Oregon. It is so beautiful here!

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Yes, it was unseasonably hot but looking forward to experiencing Oregon during cooler times. 😊

[@emchanvlogs]

best vegan friendly cityyyy

[@___Angelica]

we could share a table cuz i want to everything you ordered☺👍✌

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

You’d totally be welcome at my table! 🤓😊👍🏼

[@trellis1027]

I'm from Seattle and thinking about a Portland visit. I visited once 5 years ago and before that like 20 years ago, lol. Great vibe in your video and, not to embarrass you, but you are suuuper cute.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

Thank you for the kind words 😅. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@musictofreeyourmind5560]

It's funny to see people's take on my hometown

[@___Angelica]

minus that last ketchup-y dish.

[@zgears]

Portland was a great place to live 20 years ago. Embarrassed to have had any connection to it now.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

@zgears not sure if others would go that far but I did keep hearing the phrase “Portland isn’t like what it used to be” a lot during my trip. I’m eager to explore the rest of Oregon though. Beautiful nature destinations!

[@KrimsonKracker]

Other than a visible homeless population in selective parts of Portland (fun fact: EVERY major west coast city has this issue due to out-of-control housing costs), what issues do you actually have with it? Crime rate has always been lower than the national average for a city of Portland's size, EVEN with the inherent covid-era spike (recently decreasing again). Portland's still a largely safe city with casual issues that most, if not all, cities with 2.5 million+ people experience.

[@Azazel2024]

The rest of Oregon is significantly different the further away from Portland you get . Certainly some problems have spread but Oregon has incredible natural beauty. I hope you explore it

[@Azazel2024]

@kk you're myopic clearly

[@lysolkills99oftherona42]

Portland is still a gorgeous city, people make it seem like it's Haiti we were speaking off what it's still cooler than most of the cities I visit yewarly. There are tons of things to do if you enjoy nature. In one day You can go to the desert, go eat lunch by one of the 1000s of waterfalls at an old growth forest and catch the sunset by the Pacific Ocean. Portland isnt just downtown Portland where the tourists go. Locals barely go downtown anyways, the neighborhoods and streets filled with shops, breweries, and foodie stuff are still here. As long as the dumb overly liberal government keeps picking up the slack we will get back to the city others would look up to.

[@gregdrivesdriver5104]

Well as bad as Portland has become in the last 20 years, at least there is still some great food. Most of the videos now just show the dangers of public transportation, the parks that are now filled with the homeless, graffiti, tents everywhere, drug addicts, people shooting up, gun violence, people stealing from retail stores, police activity, prostitution, people living in RVs and the abandoned downtown and surrounded empty businesses. Your talents are amazing at shooting around the scourge.

[@SarahtheEnthusiast]

I definitely saw a lot of unhoused folks. Though, I am pretty sure LA has the largest population of unhoused individuals. It’s sad. Both cities need to do a better job.

[@BooksAndTempeh]

I live here and that’s hardly every street or neighborhood. What a ridiculous comment. It doesn’t take “talent” to shoot around it.

[@StarkyLife]

Portland sucks now. 45yo and been living around Portland the entire time. Is gone to crap over the last 8-10yrs. Violent, dirty, expensive, and those are probably the better parts. In my opinion Portland is a dying city. The young people who live there will say it’s great. But they don’t know any better. The older folks that say it’s great, don’t want to accept that it’s probably their fault. Anyway, that’s my thoughts and I live here. I also wanna thank the outsiders that moved here and jacked the home prices up. I made good money but dream of owning a home is dead here for 80% of people.

[@JarrettVolinic]

So basically, anyone that disagrees with your opinion is wrong? I'm a homeowner in the inner east side of Portland and ride my bike all throughout town and think it's a terrific place to live. The city did go through a rough patch during COVID, like many US cities, but Portland has been back to its normal self for a while now and continues to improve the quality of life for its residents and visitors.

[@JamesMinerTattoo]

it’s totally getting better!

[@Charlesx396]

lol you’re just an annoying old man. Portland is amazing

[@Charlesx396]

Always some old boomer complaining about Portland.

[@Dcw-rp6ib]

It is a homeless drug infested mess now and used to be great but a lot of the stores have closed due to theft and its a shame.

[@Azazel2024]

We can't day that..its " negative " . And " right wing " 🤣

[@Jms3424]

If you grew up anywhere else in America, then you already know that food in Portland is crap

[@billparis9624]

Sorry we don’t have any Whataburgers for you buddy. Consistently rated as one of the best food cities in the nation.

[@titandoomshop]

$8 for a small ass pizza with nothing on it but leafs is wild asf... even if deal lol

[@titandoomshop]

@@KrimsonKracker you saying that is the reason that pedo joe is in office rn , you guys don't use a single braincell shit is insanely sad and not a small pizza cost that much. . shit mods pizza cost less and still better and is in Portland all over haha

[@titandoomshop]

@@KrimsonKracker only " people " happy are democucks cause they think paying way more is worth 😭😭😭🤣🤣 that's why y'all ok with 6$ for gas and 20$ for some eggs

[@Azazel2024]

@kk....what are you a tour guide 🤣. Why so serious?

[@Azazel2024]

Yeah. You're a db hipster. Lol at y o u