Land of Ports

There is this show on FoodTV called "40 dollars a day" where the host spends a day in a given U.S. city to sight-see and eat for $40 or less. For example, in one episode they visited Austin. Well, tonight's episode I caught was in Portland, Maine.

Boy, I have to tell you - it sure is a beautiful town. The high-up shots of the city buildings against the Atlantic backdrop was quite picturesque. I suppose I never had any mental picture to go on, so I just invented some "virtual Portland" in my head and imagined that's where you lived. And then I see this show and realized what I imagined was nothing like reality.

Anyway, Nate & Karen: nice job on....living there.


PS - The host went to this diner restaurant called Becky's down by the Portland market. She ate this blueberry pancake that I nearly attempted to scrape off the TV screen. Give it a try. Send me the leftovers.