Let's get weird ! Justin and I, plus one of my best college friends, visited Portland in September. But I have not been great this year at keeping up to date with my posts, so you'll have to bear with me as I attempt to recall what we did during our trip. The impetus for the trip was to see friends, relax, and enjoy the weekend, so we didn't have much of an agenda. The reason we chose Portland was because, in the words of Zoolander, it's so hot right now; it has a reputation as one of the hippest cities in the West, and we needed to see if this reputation was deserved. We spent the weekend on high alert for signs of hipsters, artisanal everything, and plaid, and we were not disappointed. We kicked things off right by communing sole-fully with the famous PDX carpet: Boots on the ground, if you will. If you aren't familiar with the glorious history of the PDX airport carpet, be sure to check it out on Wikipedia . Yes, that's right: this carpet...
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