Quick travel guides for nomads
One of America’s favorite small towns…cute, charmy, artsy, nature, peaceful.
Ashland is a common midway stop between San Francisco and Portland. If you’re not staying Mount Shasta, Ashland makes a great pitstop if even for only a couple hours. That’s the limit of how I’ve ever known it.
Couple hours is enough. Couple days if you absolutely love it.
Portland was and still is one America’s most (authentically) hipster, hip, trendy, coolest towns to live in.
For many years since 2010, it was one of the fastest growing cities and taking in the millennial exodus from burned-out over-priced cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. The original Portlanders were all “F**K YOU, CALIFORNIANS! GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND DON’T CALIFORNICATE OUR BELOVED PORTLAND!”
And rightly so…because all the outsiders were bringing in their money, buying up property, raising property values and rent beyond what local Portlanders could pay, clogging up streets with traffic, and just ruining the organic hippie ambiance with their pseudo-spirituality.
Let’s find out why I (and everyone thinks Portland is so cool).
Get real LA travel tips from a true (and proud) Los Angeles native.
I’m from here, I lived here for most of my life and in many different neighborhoods. Will happily give you the most biased (and unbiased) breakdown as best as I can. The kind of info you can only get from a true LA native.
This info is absolutely necessary because I consider Los Angeles to be the absolute most difficult tourist city in the world. You may think it’s fun, you might even come here and find fun things. But most of you won’t, as most people complain it’s not pretty, not fun, and too much driving, or impossible to get in there. It’s all true.
But indeed, many people do live here happily and for a reason…because they KNOW how to visit and get around LA. So let me teach you how to explore it properly (and not like a fucken tourist).