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Originally Posted by JordanL
Oh wow, you happened to hit Alberta on Last Thursday? 
Looks like you hit a lot of my suggestions, so I'm glad you enjoyed them. Thanks for the follow up and your pics are great. 
What was your experience like? |
Even better than Last Thursday, it was actually on Saturday, but during an ANNUAL street party, so I'm guessing it was bigger than the Last Thursday ones.
Experience was great, I hope to come back for a week or so soon. Seattle to me was a lot like Vancouver, but with more cracked out people and more aggressive panhandlers. That's not to say Seattle has more of that, but it doesn't have the skid row like Vancouver has with East Hastings, where all of the junkies congregate, so that might be why they're more wandering in Seattle. Sure any big city is going to have that, but even in Capitol Hill, the gay/hipster village there were a lot of twitching people.
Portland on the other hand, was more like a city made of just the little urban villages which are outside of the Vancouver core, so the culture was different enough to be interesting. But in 2 days anything will seem pretty cool, a 10 day trip though is more my style, where you very temporarily 'live' in the city you're visiting. Just need to befriend some hot portland hipster chick(s), since $150 a night for 10 days at Hotel DeLuxe is a bit pricey
Also the coffee was really really good in Portland.
We'll see though, Northern California/San Francisco is also on my list, and friends in Denver would like a repeat visit, so it may be a bit before I can return.
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