To us, two Portland residents, Vancouver B.C. feels like a home away from home. It’s a city with amazing green spaces, access to both the mountains and the sea within a short drive, and a good food and drink scene buoyed by the access to amazing bounty of products from the surrounding region. As you’ll…
We’re big fans of Hood River, and it’s a really unique place from a geographical standpoint. It sits right at the border between Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River, but it also sits on the cusp of Oregon’s transition from the green, wet climate on the western side of the Cascades and the dry,…
As you head east out of Portland, the landscape starts to change and you leave the flat valley with a few hills and cinder cones behind and head out along the Columbia River, which funnels you into a deep gorge that has been carved into the Cascades by millions of years of water flowing through…
Since we’re almost always coming from Portland, we usually come down Highway 26 through Government Camp and past Mount Hood. As soon as you cross the Cascades and turn south towards Bend, you start to see the landscapes changing from the ferny underbrush and towering evergreens that are emblematic of Western Oregon, to scrubbrush and…
I grew up in the Seattle area, went to the University of Washington, and lived in Seattle for years after college before relocating for work, meeting Alysha, and eventually making my way back to the Pacific Northwest (this time in Portland). At its core, Seattle is a city that is optimistic and entrepreneurial. You can…
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been revisiting the coffee scene in cities like Seattle and San Francisco – cities I know well, but mostly from before this site became my full time job – and it has really illuminated two things. First, the coffee world is evolving. Five years ago (ish), it felt…