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I'm falling in love with Portland. It's not the same uncontrollable love I first felt for Vancouver, it's more a love that grows from familiarity, like the love I have for Boston.  It's more respect and understanding than anything else, but it'll do.  Portland reminds me a lot of what would happen if you took my home city and plopped Boston on top of it.  It's equal parts ramshackle and ritz.  It's classy but it's edgy too, the traffic is a little bit crazy at times, but drivers are great at letting pedestrians cross the road.  It's quiet and empty most of the day but people do appear in ones and twos as the evening wears on.

Yesterday I went to another noon event; Matt Brown played at The Square.  If the jeans with the shirt and tie weren't enough to convince me he was awesome, his music certainly did.  It's not often that you find someone who is somehow inexplicably better live than they are looped on CD, but he's in good company with some of my favorites now.  I can say that for sure.  My favorite of his so far is 'Acrobat' which there's a link to on his website if you're interested.

After the show ended, I wandered down along the waterfront and then back up to the Pearl District.  I was going to call it an early day (a really early day) but decided instead to wander down to the farmer's market around the corner and spend some time in the park calling home before dinner.

Today I'm off to the World Forestry Center and perhaps Hoyt Arboretum depending on how things are going.  I leave late tomorrow for San Francisco, so I'm planning on an early night tonight so I can pack and gear up for the busy day I have planned tomorrow (Sunday Market and the book fair).
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  1. Rebecca Johnson9:26 PM, July 29, 2014

    Omg! Lisa and music and travel and trees and books and markets! It's everything I love!

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    1. Lisa10:54 PM, July 29, 2014

      The music in Portland is beyond perfect. Granted most things are in that hipster artsy sort of way that I love, plus Powell's Books, just guh. Basically if I were making up a Becca North America tour itinerary Portland would be on it *g* granted I mean I would penciling my name right in next to yours but you know...

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