home from portland. but it's late. and i'm tired. and i am going backpacking tomorrow in the sierra. (woo!! i cannot tell you how excited i am to go back to the backcountry) so the lost story, as well as the tales of my portland adventures will have to wait a few more days. hopefully y'all are out having a wonderful three day weekend, and won't read this til tuesday, anyways. next week is the end of my 2 months of fun, back to the old routine. (as well as updating this with stuff that is somewhat interesting, hopefully, instead of this goobledygook that i have been posting recently)...

did i say i love portland? i went to this pizza place - hot lips pizza - that used organic ingredients and got produce and cheese from local farmers and made some DAMN good pizza (i had one with sun dried tomatoes and sweet potatoes and onions and brie...it was SO good)...why can't there be restaurants everywhere that care about their products like that? i just felt so at home in portland, like i belonged....i guess i have a good goal now - figure out how to move there. :)