I fell in love with McMenamins Kennedy School when I was in Portland, wandering the hallways that still held the friendly ghosts of childhoods long past. Once an elementary school, the good folks at McMenamins transformed the place into a brewery/pub/movie theater/hostel.
The beer was amazing, and I spent a dreamy afternoon watching the cherry blossoms dance across the roiling gray sky through the industrial-grade wooden windows in the bar. It's memories like this that have made me almost certain I want to uproot from the Bay Area and re-plant myself in Portland's rich soil...
