- My people
- Mount Hood visible from anywhere
- 90 minutes to the ocean
- Tillamook cheese
- All that rain
- All that coffee
- All those trees
- My Father's Place
- Liberals
- Powell's
- Getting to the rest of my people in a day of road-tripping
- Seattle is right there
- Banning's (I know, technically this is Tigard) coffee at midnight with D & I
- Infinity Tattoo
- Full-service gas stations
- Basketball
Things I don't miss about Portland:
- That smell in the morning
- All that rain
- The way it doesn't seem like I belong there anymore, and I don't know when that happened
- Waiting for the Hawthorne Bridge
- Randomly running into old teachers and other scary people
- Beaverton (I never liked Beaverton)
- "Pop"
- Front licence plates
I think maybe I'm homesick.
Beaverton has changed a lot over the years, I think. With Nike, and the proximity of Intel etc, it's becoming quite the cosmopolitan area. Heh.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, when you come visit the Northwest, and take CJ and Mer to see what a summer where the max temp has hit 75 ONCE so far this year is like (my kids are complaining of the cold and it's 52F and rainy right now), I'd love to see you in either in Seattle or Portland or wherever. (We love the Tillamook factory too. Linnea wants to move in.)
I'm homesick for you...sure wish you were on the west coast darlin'
ReplyDeleteBetty...email me...
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