Land Of Wondrous Coffee & Cannabis!
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SITREP
I love crashing with my friends here in the lovely City of Eugene when making my regular I-5 treks between Sacramento and Seattle.
THE SETUP
If you are a Road Warrior like me - and by that I mean you prefer to do as much of your interstate travel as by highways as by skyways - you will become pretty familiar with every city, town & hamlet along I-5 in Oregon for possible overnighters, if even extended 1-2 stay layovers.
Luckily for me I have college friends and cousins who live around these here parts and Eugene, OR is one of those fun, rustic - yet avante garde - communities that stands out.
COFFEE AND CANNABIS!
Eugene has some great coffee stops here, and there's already a couple that I enjoy, including Glass House Coffee. Additionally, you can't help but notice that Eugene has a plethora of Cannabis shops.
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Having been inducted into the Cannabis landscape in Seattle by my mom, I've become more curious about the shops in Oregon. Can't help but notice that their prices are sometimes dramatically less in just about every category of Cannabis, from buds to edibles to tinctures. Glass Roots has got you covered!
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One of the travel realities of flying is that Federal laws STILL apply and you are still liable to criminal sanctions if caught carrying cannabis products on your carry-on AND checked luggage (if searched). The same is not true is driving.... just a friendly FYI. And hence just another reason why Eugene may factor into the radar of the more ...uh ...discriminating traveler.
STREET ART!
I love the beauty of a community - like I've seen in recent years in Sacramento, in Sutter Creek, in Plymouth, in Austin, in Nashville, in Miami, etc. - that expresses itself upon the walls of it's warehouses, it's garages, it's shops and every surface available: a virtual celebration of every walls as canvas, and Eugene has this!
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THE LOWDOWN
As you are going NB or SB on I-5, make sure to take the exit I-105 that leads you to Downtown Eugene! read more