Enjoying Our New Home Away from Home
As I mentioned in the last post , we are in transition this summer. We're not leaving the Chicago area entirely (after all, we still have a condo to sell !), but we are adding a new Portland-area zip code to our lives. So for the rest of the summer at least, it's goodbye mid-west and hello pacific northwest! Because we have been busy making yet another drive across the country and then setting up a new menage (lots more on that in another post probably), we haven't had a chance to sight-see as much as we'd like. Once things settle down and we establish a rhythm of working in this new area (Will) and traveling back and forth (me), hopefully we will get to familiarize ourselves more fully with the charms of the pacific northwest. In the meantime, let me enumerate a few aspects we already enjoy about our new home-away-from home: NATURAL BEAUTY We love Chicago (well, maybe I love it a bit more than Will does...), but it certainly cannot compete with the p...