How are things on the west coast?

Vancouver is:

- the birthplace of Greenpeace
- home to The New Pornographers and Hot Hot Heat. more importantly, Cobie Smulders and Kristin Kreuk. and even Pamela Anderson
- the second largest TV production center in North America, after LA (and third in feature films, after LA and NYC)
- the third largest metropolitan area in Canada
- the tenth cleanest city in the world

Seattle is:

- the most literate city in the U.S.
- the city that first played a Beatles song on the radio
- the birthplace of Starbucks, Boeing, Microsoft and Amazon
- home to Pearl Jam. and a number of other bands, but none are relevant when compared to Pearl Jam. Peeeearl Jam
- the city with the longest continuously operating farmer’s market in the U.S. (since 1907)
- where an anthropologist blogger with a citrus nickname has a (very good) pizza restaurant. marta won’t stop talking about her “apple crisp something dessert”. h-e-l-p.

Portland is:

- the greenest city in the U.S. (and second in the world)
- home to The Shins, Modest Mouse and The Decemberists
- a city where sales taxes don’t exist (go Oregon!)
- where I had some of the best Spanish tapas in my life

The Oregon Coast is:

- 583 km long (yes, the metric system still rules my world)
- a good place to spot seals and sea lions, or so they say
- made up of sea cliffs along miles of beaches

[continuing]
… it’s Melvin, the evil squirrel from hell!

it’s a bird! it’s a plane! …

[to be continued]