Good afternoon, world. We’re alive and well in Portland, which is our favourite American city by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, GFT has a twenty page paper to write over the course of our trip, so she has relinquished some of the fun times today in order to get some work done. I’m super proud of her for trying to work in the van. She’s also hammered a few pages while I was out and about this morning. While she was slaving away, I walked around the Old Town and popped into Powells books to find some cheap reads. Up next will be a quick walk down the block to Burnside Brewing for a pint before getting ready for dinner at Beast (super excited). After will be a nightcap at Alameda Brewing (GFT’s favourite beer is from there – Yellow Wolf IPA). Then, up bright and early and off to Montana.
Yesterday sucked. Packing and moving is the worst thing ever. We took much longer than anticipated and by the time we got out of Vancouver, it was two in the morning before we checked into our hotel. Granted, an hour of our travel was dinner, which was at a cute little brewhouse in Bellingham, Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen. Cute town, great beer and pretty good food too. Portions were a bit ‘American,’ but that means we didn’t need to buy lunch today. So I approve of that. Also, our safety chains were dragging and sparking and several drivers were telling us to pull over. I had no idea what was going on and it took a trip around the parking lot for us to figure it out. But everything seems to be in order now and that makes us both much more comfortable.
As for writing, well, I’ll do my best to work while GFT works (except in the car, when I’ll be driving). I realize I still have to finish my recollection of our summer road trip, so I’m pretty far behind in that respect, but I’ll try to do as good a job as possible of relating what’s happening day by day. I also noticed that I had a few drafts I was going to write about prior to leaving, but packing really consumed that final week. Ideas were: “Cue up the Kanye 2: Diddy edition” and “It starts with beer, ends with beer and has a bit more beer in the middle. Oh ya, and some national parks, too.” Diddy edition was going to be about our travels home in reference to another bit I wrote about that last year not realizing that ‘Coming Home’ was by Puff Daddy and not Kanye West. My bad. The second was going to be a overview of our plan for the trip which includes beer in Portland, beer in Montana and beer in Milwaukee. There was also going to be mentions of the national parks we are going to stop in and also a reiteration that we are not alcoholics, but that we are fascinated by beer as a sommelier is knowledgable of wines. So be prepared for lots of beer related info, some nature related stuff and a whole bunch of ‘sitting in a car for twelve hours straight kind of sucks.’
Oh and this is my one-hundredth post. So hoorah for that.
See you tomorrow in Big Sky Country.
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