On our first visit to Sevilla nearly five years ago (at the time of writing), there were only a couple of gluten free options in the city, as things had slowed down significantly in 2020 and 2021, and it was a tough time to be a gluten free restaurant in a city with a lot…
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 visiting Bend 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…
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…