when we drove from portland to our next destination (when we left portland we didnt know yet what that destination would be, only that it would be somewhere more south...), we passed by boring!! actually it was not the road we had to take, but we decided to drive the 4 miles to see what boring looks like. i hoped for a nice sign "welcome to boring!" but nothing of that sort... (perhaps it gets stolen too often?). apparently 8000 people live in boring. and it was named boring after william h boring, and early resident of the area, who died in 1932. thats actually a little boring, but well...
we found the boring post office and were surprised it was open on a saturday (around here they are often closed, or only open in the morning), so we sent some postcards. unfortunately not with pictures of boring, since the post office didnt have any cards for sale, other than entirely white ones, prestamped. ah well... i was excited to visit boring, oregon, even though it seemed that there was not much going on...
