My husband and I with our Standard Poodle Tate, in a BMW, flying down the highway, over hills and dales ...The weather was good the entire trip, we stayed in La Quinta Inns every night ( dogs are welcome) and listened to a lot of good music.
And there was not one day of rain, nothing bad happened, we arrived in Portland and stayed in the Hotel Monaco, a Kimpton Hotel. There are so many fabulous hotels in Portland !
We stayed at the hotel while we looked for our new home .. we rented an apartment in a building that had just been completed. It was perfect .. everything about it.
The trip was perfect too. The car was good, the company was good ( my husband was a very good driver and liked to drive fast ) .. we saw cowboys and horses and mountains and rivers and a whole lot of very nice people along the way. It was a lovely time in our lives and I am happy I remember it all. ( although these days I can say I am happy I remember ....)
so there you have it ... Out West ...
Portland is a beautiful city, isn't it?
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There is something about the wide open spaces of the West. Don't think I could ever live back east again, at least, not in NYC....Maybe New England
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Portland wa wonderful in all ways for us at that time ... we were starting to think about buying a home there when we took that trip to Buenos Aires ... which blew all other plans out of the water :)
ReplyDeleteWe bought a house in the Chathams in NY ... in its own way it is very beautiful .. open spaces and skies and stars that you feel like you can reach out and touch, every night .. I am kind of homesick, can you tell ? lol
Remarkable!
ReplyDeleteAndrew, is was really fabulous. I was born in Arizona and we had driven there for holidays when I was a child .. this drive, from NY to Florida to Portland Oregon, was fantastic .. my husband , the dog and I .. in a fast car :)
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