This time tomorrow, we'll be landing in...
Sure this video is a bit on the touristy side, but the production qualities are nice.
(hint: follow the link and watch in glorious HD)
And if you knew our point of origin, you'd know how refreshingly stark a contrast this is.
Conveyor sushi, here I come.
For a week...
No more red state histrionics, racial hypercognizance, scarcity of culinary diversity, stifling humidity, paucity of musical panoply, inundation of second hand smoke, rebuke of all but the narrowest "norm."
No clouds of mosquitoes and "Who are YOUR people?" and snide remarks about the lack of superficial beauty beyond the South. No rebel flags and white columns and endless pick-ups/SUVs and ghosts of the Confederacy.
What eight letters sound as good as V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N?
Few.


Salon.com
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I got to visit the Oregon coast for the first time this year -- it was beautiful, and quite a contrast to the Midwest.