Chinese Garden

Chinese gardens are straight rock awesome.  This one is in Portland, Oregon.  They have a building where you can have tea. (Maybe I can live there?)  If I was building a house, I couldn't do much better than this.  Or this.

Photo by Jessica Hibbard (Flickr jesshibb)

Motivation

Ooo-ooh child, things are gonna get easier.  Ooo-ooh child, things'll get brighter.

Photo by Alpha Tango Bravo / Adam Baker

Portland

So Micki and I have a list of places we would like to go.  Places we've discussed, and have no current plans to visit, include:

Ireland

Greece

Scandinavia

Vermont

Quebec

Toronto

Niagara Falls

Washington, DC

Wisconsin

Colorado

Seattle

Portland

California

Tokyo

China

New Zealand

...and there are many more I haven't discussed with her.

But one place, I really think I need to go, and I haven't been there, so I don't know if I'll like it there, and hell if I went it would be for a week or so and how can one like something fully after only one week unless it only costs $1.99.  Still, I want to go to Portland.  I've heard so many good things.

And there are mountains, the Pacific ocean, wine, beer!