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Driving over the Willamette River you can see the hulk of Mount Tabor touching the sky to the east, along with Mount Hood in the distance. The white-topped volcano Mount Saint Helen’s looks peaceful enough in its corner of Washington State, minding its business over there, though you can sense the foreboding—you don’t want to piss off a volcano and send it heaving in your direction, or any direction for that matter. To complement the cascading mountains are the trees—the firs, the cedars, the hickories, the birches—speckling the landscape with feathery greens like deft strokes from Bob Ross’ paintbrush. If you love coffee, the best place for you, other than Seattle, Washington, is Portland, Oregon since there are 8,739 coffee shops to choose from. That’s not an exact count but a close p
