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1. Coffee. You'll be in Seattle and Portland. Coffee is awesome. You may as well be in Italy. 2. Public transportation. Planes, trains, buses, shuttles, taxis - plenty to choose from, but this is America. Get a car. Trust me on this. 3. Seattle and Portland both have excellent transit IN town. Mostly. 4. It's a 3 hour drive from Portland to Seattle and 2.5 hours from Seattle to Portland. Why? I don't know. Having done that drive hundreds of times, all I can tell you is it uncannily true. 5. It's a 12-14 (16-18 for you 55 alive people) hour drive from Portland to San Francisco via the I-5 freeway. 6. Our railroads don't do much passenger traffic, just lots and lots and lots of freight. 7. Flying just sucks these days. No point in the hassle if you don't HAVE to. I'm driving up from Texas. Why? Cheaper, more fun, much more beautiful, I get to stop and play shows, visit friends, make money, advertise, etc... 8. Being trapped in a car for hours on end with another looper is a great way to make a new life-long buddy. 9. I loved driving in Europe. Fascinating roads, traffic patterns, toll freeways, utter lack of rules (which was awesome), light contact and well..Paris. Driving in the U.S. is fun. Seattle is fast and aggressive, Portland is bogged down and annoying, the I-5 corridor from the Oregon/California border is basically a giant drag stip of traffic trying to not get a ticket whilst barreling along at 90 miles an hour. San Francisco is either a mind-numbing crawl during each of the 3 hour rush-hours or a "tourists stay out of the left-lane" sprint that would make the drives in Monte Carlo white knuckle it as some soccer mom is sniffing your tailpipe in her brand new Escalade full of kids while she's texting and sucking down a Carmel-soy-double-whip-mocachino at speeds that only Germans would laugh it. L.A. is like the fast past of S.F., except you're traveling 7 miles per hour. As long as it isn't smoggy, the weather is so beautiful you don't even mind it for a day or two. 10. What was I going on about? Noah On Fri, January 31, 2014 7:50 am, Teddyjam.com wrote: > ; ( > > The oil companies bought and crippled our railroads 100 years ago... > Still, there's always a way to get there. > > Teddy > http://teddyjam.com > > On Jan 31, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I guess the >> land is just too wide and tax payers too badly motivated for a decent >> community based transportation system to ever emerge in the US. ;-) >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per > > Peterson Entertainment, Llc 999 East Basse Road #180-117 San Antonio, TX 78209 503-703-9516 -- www.noahpeterson.com www.petersonentertainment.com