‘Katherine’s theory is that everyone looking to make a new life migrates west, across America to the Pacific Ocean.
Once there, the cheapest city where they can live is #Portland.
This gives us the most cracked of the crackpots.
The misfits among misfits.
“We just accumulate more and more strange people,” she says.
“All we are are the fugitives and refugees.”
Chuck #Palahniuk, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
So I have to confess all I know about #Portland is based on this quasi-autobiography / travel guide by Chuck Palahniuk that I read when it came out over 20 years ago.
I would really love to visit…but that would require me to do 2 impossible things:
a) to fly again - haven’t in over a decade due to climate
b) visit US again - which I haven’t in over a decade and won’t be while the fascists are in the White House
But yeah, it’s my idea of weird and wonderful, not war-ravaged.
Juggling With Eggs
Just Bob
