Portland

I’ve been here a week and I’m in love with Portland. It has it’s share of nuisances, but I truly feel at home here. It’s been the first time I can walk around and no one gives me a second look. So much so that I’ve walked to get groceries, and have tickets booked for a few events around town (big for me). Portland is truly as weird as they say, and I love it.

Not the greatest view from my apartment itself as I went for the lowest price (an awesome $1500/mo with 2 months free), but I’m surrounded by a greenbelt, and am within a mile of the Willamette river, and about 5 miles the Columbia river and from trademark PNW forest.

Yes, that’s a double-decker bus. It’s actually a bar on the edge of a little permanent food truck city that I still need to check out.

Not to mention I am 1.5 hours from the ocean (and 2.5 from Seattle) so I already visited my favorite shipwreck and the Maritime museum.