Works for me ... Welcome to the throng, Peter. The northwest life is as much an attitude as anything else ... you take it with you wherever you go. We have an expression in my world, "Visit here and a piece of it goes with you, and piece of you stays, when you leave."

Quite true, especially for me since I actually became a writer there, instead of just a dreamer who picked up a pen from time to time.

Thanks for the hospitality.

Welcome home, Peter.

If you occasionally wear flannel shirts or gortex, you never left!