Portland <3
People in Portland are seriously the best. The people who choose to visit a place like Portland are also pretty rad. I always end up having fun conversations, usually with tourists, in the long line at Voodoo Doughnuts. Yesterday I went there with my mother-in-law while Katy and her group of friends shopped at the Saturday Market. The wait was about an hour, and I spent most of that time talking to the guy in front of us in line. It was his first visit to Portland, and he was only here for a day, so I was trying to give him some ideas for what he should cram into his too-short visit. He was totally starting in the right place!
Anyway it was an awesome conversation -- he was so interesting, and I always love talking about Portland, so the time just flew. After we got our doughnuts, he got another visitor to take a picture of the two of us together, and we exchanged Facebook information so we could stay in touch. He's a senior at NYU working this summer in San Francisco. So he lives in the places I frequent...maybe I'll see him again someday. Or maybe he'll fall in love with Portland the way I did and he'll end up here when he graduates, and he'll want me to teach him bridge and we'll become the most dominant pair of young players in the northwest. Hey, a girl can dream :)
Something about this city just makes this kind of interaction the norm. It feels safe and comfortable to talk to strangers. The underlying fact that each of you chose to be in Portland is enough of a basis to know that it's all good.
I haven't been everywhere, but I've been a lot of places. Portland is the best place I know. I'm so lucky to live here.
Anyway it was an awesome conversation -- he was so interesting, and I always love talking about Portland, so the time just flew. After we got our doughnuts, he got another visitor to take a picture of the two of us together, and we exchanged Facebook information so we could stay in touch. He's a senior at NYU working this summer in San Francisco. So he lives in the places I frequent...maybe I'll see him again someday. Or maybe he'll fall in love with Portland the way I did and he'll end up here when he graduates, and he'll want me to teach him bridge and we'll become the most dominant pair of young players in the northwest. Hey, a girl can dream :)
Something about this city just makes this kind of interaction the norm. It feels safe and comfortable to talk to strangers. The underlying fact that each of you chose to be in Portland is enough of a basis to know that it's all good.
I haven't been everywhere, but I've been a lot of places. Portland is the best place I know. I'm so lucky to live here.