A couple weeks ago I flew into Billings, MT for work. I had to drive down a couple hours to
Nowheresville, WY to visit with the sponsor that will be hosting the team. The team will be living on a working ranch. It's amazing. I'm jealous. I'm pretty much in love with Montana and Wyoming. However, it's so conservative - a comparable religious vibe to the south. I walked into a cafe to get some lunch and there was three women with bowed heads praying before lunch. Not my thing, but it sure is
purty.
Billings is actually pretty cool. They also have awesome antique shops that I may have wondered into during my search for lunch. I'll post my finds later maybe.
Now, on to Oregon...
We went to Portland for my birthday. I liked it a lot. I mean, I could probably live there. But, there's this weird vibe going on (yep, that's twice I used that word, but I can't think of an y other way to describe it. Plus, I live in California now, so you know... I actually don't think I even used that word while living in Chicago except to make fun on Californians.) There were a lot of sorta grungy peeps playing guitars randomly all over the place. It also seemed like people just sorta hang out and work a little at places like Voodoo Doughnuts and coffee shops so they can afford more tattoos. People didn't seem especially happy and there were quite a few disgruntled drivers that likes their horns. I
donno... I'll need to go again to double check. Great food, though!
We stayed at an awesome hotel,
Hotel Modera. They upgraded us to a suite and left us a bottle of wine on our room. It was so awesome! We also went to the farmer's market, ate at
Andina, walked around the Alberta Arts District, drank
Stumptown Coffee, ate
Voodoo Doughnuts and
cupcakes, went to the Chinese Garden, drank
Rouge beer, and walked a lot (we didn't rent a car).
Good times!
