PNW = Pacific Northwest. Instead of going home for Thanksgiving, we got out of town. We used a JetBlue pass I had that was about to expire to go as many miles away from home as possible: Portland, OR! It had been on the list of destinations for a while, so this was the perfect chance to see it in its misty, gray, rainy best. We rented a car to drive up I-5 via Seattle, to Vancouver, Canada, wandering small towns on the way and checking out the cities. Portland reminded us both a lot of Austin; small, walkable, affordable, and scenic. It started snowing when the plane landed, and many restaurants closed shop due to 'inclement weather' of about a half-inch of accumulation (sound like Austin yet?), so we found a brewery called DeSchute's serving a greasy late-night dinner menu at the late-night hour of 9:30, and grabbed a bite before going 'home'. For our first 2 nights in PDX and two nights in Vancouver, we stayed through airbnb at apartments within walking or easy