{"id":4034,"date":"2021-05-22T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2021-05-22T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:09:00","slug":"home-sweet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2021\/05\/22\/home-sweet-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Sweet Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post won&#8217;t mean much to most people who happen to read it &#8212; but it does to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent the day with a close high school friend (Class of 75) wandering around my hometown. Towards the end of the day we caught up with a second classmate and swapped stories and brought each other up to date on what&#8217;s happened in the last 15-20 years! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7362.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7362.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7362-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7362-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to bike around town this time &#8212; Buster was our mode of transport. It seemed like my town had shrunk about 10 sizes! Distances were so much shorter than I remembered them from my youth. I wonder now why I didn&#8217;t venture farther from home than I did? Hardly ever left Portland and for that matter  spent most of my childhood playing with a dozen or so neighbors from Penny Corner Lane! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7333.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4036\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7333.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?attachment_id=4036\" class=\"wp-image-4036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7333.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7333-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7333-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to driving by the two houses I lived in &#8212; one on Spring Street and one on Bartlett Street, we visited the Quarry View park (brownstone is what Portland is famous for&#8230;), wandered the &#8216;downtown&#8217; area and had breakfast at Sarah&#8217;s on Main. I took pictures of Buck Library, the Town Hall and other landmarks that until now I think I only had mental images of. It will be nice to have some photos to share with my friends and family back in Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4037\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?attachment_id=4037\" class=\"wp-image-4037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img 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https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7265-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7270.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4042\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7270.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?attachment_id=4042\" class=\"wp-image-4042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7270.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7270-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7270-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7271.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4043\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7271.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?attachment_id=4043\" class=\"wp-image-4043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7271.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7271-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7271-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7274.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4044\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7274.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?attachment_id=4044\" class=\"wp-image-4044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7274.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7274-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7274-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4045\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?attachment_id=4045\" class=\"wp-image-4045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347-1-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tn_IMG_7347-1-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the more emotional moments was visiting the Swedish Cemetery and locating my grandparents grave marker. It took me about 30 minutes to find it &#8212; and in the end it was only about a half dozen graves away from where Buster was parked!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure if or when I&#8217;ll get back here again &#8212; and I am so thankful to have had today in Portland!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post won&#8217;t mean much to most people who happen to read it &#8212; but it does to me. I spent the day with a close high school friend (Class of 75) wandering around my hometown. 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