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…
Is London our favorite city in the world? It’s hard to pick just one, but if the criteria is something about rich history, great food, and extremely good public transportation (Matt is a nerd), then it has to be somewhere near the top. Put a different way, if we have a chance to go spend…
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…
San Francisco is one of our favorite cities on the planet, full stop. If you’ve spent any time in this corner of the internet, you’ll probably know that we met in San Francisco, went on our first date in San Francisco (to a Giants game), we moved in together in San Francisco, and we got…
Over the past few years, we’ve spent a fair amount of time ambling up and down Highway 395, which runs from Los Angeles on the south end up through the Eastern Sierra and Lake Tahoe, all the way up to Oregon, and it has quickly become one of our favorite places on earth (especially in…