I've had my eye on this route for some time. It's definitely the scenic route to downtown, but otherwise quite out of the way. It was nice to enter downtown from along the Willamette River. I had a little bit of a reroute because a freight train was stopped obstructing many blocks of traffic including my only path via surface streets. I backtracked (a bit too far it turned out) to find an entrance to the river trail. It's all part of exploration. Toward the end of the ride I ran out of time and went to the Rose Quarter Transit Center to ride the MAX light rail to expedite the return home. It was a good place to catch the train since the red🔴, green🟢 and blue🔵 lines converge there. They diverge at Gateway station, which was my destination. So I could just hop on the first eastbound train whichever line it was.