Since returning from the Pacific Northwest, I've noticed this.
Elysha, the kids, and I had the absolute pleasure of spending a week on Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington with our friend, Plato. A perfect way to spend a week.
We miss it already.
Since returning from the Pacific Northwest a couple of days ago, a few things are immediately apparent to me:
It’s really humid here. The air has a physical presence that I hadn’t really noticed before. I’ve been out west many times, but never to the Pacific Northwest. Even places in the midwest like Michigan, Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio are incredibly humid in the summer. But not Washington. I’d forgotten how oppressive the humidity can be here on a daily basis. It sucks.
The crickets and peepers are incredibly loud when the sun goes down. Whidbey Island is surprisingly absent of both, making it so wondrously quiet at night.
People drive aggressively here in the northeast, and particularly in Massachusetts. It’s dog-eat-dog on the roadways, and blessedly so. Pacific Northwest drivers are the worst. So polite and deferential and observant of speed limits.
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As a life-long resident of the Pacific Northwest, I appreciate you noticing our amazing good fortune in being born and raised here. A professor once told me that no great literature would come from the Pacific Northwest because people are too happy here. I respectfully disagreed, but noted that it was a handicap that we could easily live with. :)
