Portland coming up today

The city’s a beauty, if you don’t know it.

In addition to the nice landscape and the animal-friendly, vegetarian-friendly lifestyle, another part of Portland’s appeal was that once Seattle became an unaffordable traffic jam nightmare, Portland was arguably the most livable big city remaining on the West Coast.

Potential long-term issue: that’s an active volcano you see in the background. Actually, on a clear day you can see three active volcanoes from Portland: Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, and even Mt. Rainier.