Do you play guitar?  Come to Portland!  Play on the street!  Play in this very trendy coffee shop!  Play in this awesome organic Market!  This city positively sprouts enthusiastic guitarists.

But after a couple of days of Perl Jam covers, Nomadic Monkey desires a more laid-back soundtrack in the nearby mountains. Imagine him posing here to some catchy fiddle and banjo by the Del McCoury Band.

Obligatory proof-of-location shot

What awesome fuzzy topography! And the landscape's pretty good too!

I already used up my one landscape joke for the week. Sorry.

The famous Powell's Bookstore. Horace gets filed under F for "freakishly-adorable-round-thing"