Went to Portland last week and found it to be relatively uneventful. Stayed downtown, real close to Powell's. The city kind of bummed me out because I think there's a lot of really cool progressive stuff going on in that city (i.e. the biking trend for one), and there are a lot of really nice people, too. But at the same time we got really tired of the Indie hipster kids and the punker-than-thou thing got really old. The best comparison I could draw up was: what it must have been like to live in Seattle during the '90s and not be some grunge dude and instead just have been your average joe who worked in tele-sales or something like that.
In any event, interesting city but I'm glad to be home.
