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things we learned in portland

1. When you arrive, delirious and stinky, go to Denny’s. There is a waitress there who moved to Portland from California who doesn’t really like it because people don’t really care what they look like and there are so many gays and lesbians. Feel like you are home.
2. You can get lost in Powell’s, the city of books, and have to page your party even when they are in the same room.
3. They have elementary schools with Edible Schoolyards and Sustainability classes.
4. When you are in a car in Portland, you feel a bit clumsy. When you are walking, you feel like royalty.
5. New Seasons is the best natural foods market ever. You can get full on the samples and they have the most fantastic bulk section complete with grind-your-own nut butters, and agave nectar dispensers.
6. Waffle Windows and Voodoo Doughnuts
7. Arcade bars with beer holders on each game.
8. If you climb to the top of Mt. Tabor at sunset, you can see silhouette of skater kids lined up next to old folks, all glowing in six shades of pink.
9. There is no need to buy anything new in PDX. There are so many incredible resale shops its ridiculous. But if you sell something new in Portland, it better be clever and catchy and offer free-wifi with it. 
10. Oh Stumptown. How I do I love thee and your french kiss in a glass.
11. Block parties and drum circles, back yard fires and canoes hanging from porches.
12. They have sharing down.
13. The Saturday Market is on Sunday too and they have soap truffles and Nepalise food and kids playing violin while their parents sit on the curb and count money. It is utterly strange and delicious.
14. Oregon Microbrews.
15. No sales tax in Oregon.
16. Get 8% happier with each purchase.