I'd second this.

I used to live in Japan in an area where you would see motorcycles going through lanes all the time and staying inbetween them. It was extremely stressful to drive around them and I had more than one close calls from a motorcycle sneaking out of seemingly nowhere

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La Conner, WA, sweet little town.

Drive to Point Deception, then take the ferry from Coupville to Port Townsend, then take 101 down Hood Canal to Olympia. Stop for the night in Olympia and have a nice dinner. If you have the time take Hwy 8 to Aberdeen and pick up 101 south. Follow the coast and head to Astoria, OR. You could stay the night there. It’s an easy drive to Portland from there.

Wilbur and Davenport will treat you right.

While you're in Portland, go over the bridge to Vancouver, Washington. In Esther Short, there's a clocktower with salmon statues, if my memory is correct, if you get there at a certain time, the tower opens up and tells a little history story of the chinook people who lived there. Its also a great spot for a Saturday farmers market. I used to live in Vancouver and the last I visited it was one of my favorite stops.

nope, those are the three items they ask you for if you ever get pulled over. you good!

Depends on what you like to do.

Hiking/scenery? Museums? Fishing? Comedy clubs?

This isn’t state mandated density. This is the state forbidding local zoning laws from banning density; I.e protecting the right to density.

Just think how Roe. V. Wade wasn’t ‘state mandated abortions’; it was a ruling that prevented states from banning abortions.

Port Townsend is well worth the visit!

Left Bank Patisserie in Olympia, the pastries are life changing

To answer that question requires first asking, what are roads for anyway?

The answer I think most people would give is that they are a logistical investment that our community has made in order to move humans from one place to another across our communities. That seems to be the logic behind creating commuter and bus only lanes, to proiritize throughput over individual 'Fairness'.

From this lens, lane splitting demonstrably reduces traffic by allowing greater throughput. It also incentivizes more motorcycle usage which creates a positive feedback loop for reducing traffic.

My question is why should motorcyclists not have to wait in traffic like everyone else?

Gotcha! Check out those other towns if you can!

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I did a weekend trip in seattle last summer. Want to visit portland this time.

Bellingham, Mt Vernon, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia all have things to do in them that would justify a stop. I'm curious why you aren't already spending at least one night in Seattle, given its similarities with Portland in size and things to do.

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I don't understand how an abundance of housing would hurt people who don't have houses currently.

> you'd be past most of the heavy traffic area of the corridor from Seattle to Olympia.

Coming from Victoria, I'd definitely take the Hood Canal down.

Some riders might not understand how to execute it safely, and I would never want anyone to be forced to do it, however I have done it for over 10 years in the Seattle area without a collision or a ticket.

Yup!

Alrighty, thank you. I'm assuming when scraping the rest of the car I'd just show them the bill of sale then?

Olympia would be good "halfway" point, although it's a bit closer to Portland than BC. But that would be a good stopping point as you'd be past most of the heavy traffic area of the corridor from Seattle to Olympia.