{"id":824,"date":"2021-11-18T22:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2021-11-18T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T03:25:47","slug":"leaving-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/leaving-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Perhaps absent a pandemic, I would have stayed in Portland. The city has amazing food and a decent partner dance scene. But I think it far more likely that I would have left earlier than I did. In the end, Portland is as much a city as I ever want to live in longterm. Nothing really compares to a country sky at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But staying felt responsible in a world in which I had the privilege to stay put and travelling meant putting others at risk. It took a combination of losing my apartment, soaring housing prices with very little availability, a series of difficult compromises in my plans for Bella, and generous help from many corners to get me back on the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lovely spot to mark my escape from the city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eastern Oregon, right before a cold front prompted me to head south.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But the road is an uncomfortable place to be right now. I will be glad to reach family and a place to curl up for the winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I left Oregon, the healthcare system was still struggling and at capacity. Many of the places I have passed through since have been the same. The reality of overwhelmed hospitals with severe staffing shortages is at odds with the unmasked faces and crowded businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The divide isn’t political. It seems that we have come together to declare the absence of pandemic. Where might we be, had we instead come together as a community and faced the death and disability that still surrounds us? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, that’s right. A road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps absent a pandemic, I would have stayed in Portland. The city has amazing food and a decent partner dance scene. But I think it far more likely that I would have left earlier than I did. In the end, Portland is as much a city as I ever want to live in longterm. Nothing … <\/p>\n

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