We're going to Portland!! By train, even!

Steve & I decided we don't like planes for many reasons (wasteful, uncomfortable, at times scary), so we put our money on Amtrak. We'll end up spending a whole week on the train from Mt. Pleasant, IA to PDX and back, but sometimes you just gotta slow down a bit, right? We still get to spend two weeks in Portland, and I'm pretty excited to watch the landscape change as we snake along to the west coast.

Mt. Pleasant is about 50 miles from Iowa City -- a perfect distance to get a ride in before boarding the train.

(We're coming to get you, Ira!!)