Every blog has got to start out with that daunting initial post, right? Well, it’s no different around here. So how’s this?
Hello, I’m Will, and I am falling in love with the Pacific Northwest (now say it, everybody: hi, Will).
I moved to Portland, Oregon about three years ago from Oklahoma and now have a hard time thinking I’ll ever leave. It’s not enough that Portland is awesome , but just the entire region continues to blow me away. I suppose the fact that I spend about half my free time racking up the miles driving around the region is only making me more and more enamoured with every weekend drive.
So far, my longest trips have been circumnavigating the Olympic Penninsula and a drive to Yakima via the Dalles and back West via the Cascades (two seperate trips, I swear!). And that’s not even taking into account a sixteen mile hike in flip-flops I took in the high desert wasteland between Burns and Ontario in August 2008 (true story I’ll tell you about sometime).
The fact is, I am amazed by the Northwest. The mountains. The super, uber, wonderfully tall pines and firs. The beaches. The wide open high desert. Mountain rivers. The whole shebang.
I’m so amazed that I want to record some of my random trips around Oregon and Washington (such as my discovery of the wild and scenic Klickitat River in Washinton this past weekend) and create some sort of central place on the web for people to discover what makes the Northwest so amazing.
Should be a wild ride!