Something I didn't write in the post and should have is that the day I decided to leave California for good was the day I went to a mall in Riverside and found myself eating a pretzel with my then-girlfriend (now wife) in a food court area, only to realize that I was standing in the middle of a Vietnamese - Mexican gang standoff in which handguns were about to be pulled.
I'd say Portland is about 10 years from that yet.
So, where to next? Yukon?
Posted by: KevinV at August 7, 2008 10:55 PM