When this post uploads to SquareSpace tomorrow, I will be able to check off my New Year's Resolution goal of visiting a new state. I'm heading to Portland for my birthday weekend and with the exception of a Portland airport layover, I've never been to Oregon.

This is a last minute get-away to celebrate my 36th birthday. We are all caught up on Portlandia and I can't wait to see the sites. The weather is even cooperating and set to give us rain on our arrival. We are getting the proper Portland experience.

Naturally, I am most excited to see Powell's, which claims to be the largest independent bookstore in the world!!!

I have just packed my blue Banana Republic flannel shirt from 1992 and I'm ready to go discover if the "Dream of the 90's is alive in Portland"! I can get behind sleeping until eleven and working part time at a coffee shop to pay for clown school.