I’m taking a break from having just spent a lot of money on plane tickets to Portland, OR for a wedding this summer. It’s going to be a spendy trip, but it’s my favorite U.S. city (besides New York, of course) and I already see my life heading in a direction that incorporates way less plane travel and more making do with local adventures, so I’m chalking this one up to a last-hurrah sort of thing. Even as I write this I have to sort of sadly admit that west coast living might never be a reality for me. And maybe that’s okay. Maybe I’ve just romanticized it in a way that would be disappointing had I ended up living there. I probably will never know.

Portland, OR photo by sdbrown on Flickr