Portland
This was a completely different experience than in Seattle. The city is a very walkable city, it took me 3 hours to walk the perimeter of the city.
I saw one of the best shows I've seen so far, Speech and Debate. I may be biased on my opinion since I did speech and debate in high school. All of the scene titles were different categories in speech and debate which framed what was going on in the scene. I definitely recommend seeing, or reading this play, even if you aren't familiar with speech and debate would get the jokes. It was a truly rewarding experience.
It was unfortunate that I couldn't stay with a couch surfer. I had contacted one, but he never responded to me. So I was forced to stay at a cheap motel. It was right in the center of town so getting to places was very easy.
I met a woman through the couch surfing website and we had a couple of drinks one night and talked about socialism and communism until 3 o'clock in the morning. It was a great time to spend with someone. We watched the sunset one night and talked for a long time again.
