we left portland and didn't look back.. drove straight through washington without stopping until we arrived in seattle as the sun was setting, tall buildings and space needle against a pink sky. we ended up here, at his friend ryan's house, and hung out talking all night while ryan made beer in the kitchen. brewing beer is very complicated and the ingredients smell funny. derek and one of the housemates traded stories about romania and croatia and slovenia. they fed us crackers and brie and gave us a nice bed and towels... this is what we were lacking in portland... derek is so happy to be out of portland, it's funny...
after i moved out on wednesday, we slept on the floor at his friend's apartment, but he wasn't very hospitable, and by the second night we felt unwelcome so we left, and sat in a 7-11 parking lot calling lots of people who wouldn't answer their phones. we wanted to leave for seattle then, we were so sick of everything, but we had too much stuff to deal with before we could leave. finally at 2 am i called nico and he was nice enough to let us crash at his place. the next morning we all ate breakfast at the twilight with donna and sam, before they left...
that night derek's friend was out of town so we went back to his place and sorted through our stuff, made one last trip to the storage space to leave bags of derek's clothes... the next morning we shipped our bikes across the country via amtrack (we didn't want to wait until monday to use the post office) and left the city as soon as we could.
anyway, the whole time, we kept talking about the kind of hospitality we should be receiving, wondering what happened to all our friends (they all left portland too). seattle has been much kinder to us. i finally got a good nights sleep and a shower and had tea and granola for breakfast. it's sunny and cold outside. we're going to stay here until we get tired of it and then go to spokane... derek is going to show me his favorite places here since i've only been here for a few days before and i always get lost.
everyone asks me, "so, how did you meet?" 2 months ago at a party (august 31st). "and where are you going after this?" i have no idea.. i think he has a plan but i'm not sure. i don't really care where we go. nico said, "you two are weird."