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Matt The Trips : Seattle

Day 14-15 of #MattTheTrips West Coast USA road trip - food and drink in Seattle.

Day 14 - Sitka & Spruce, Starbucks Roastery, The Pine Box, Holy Mountain, 206 Distillery, Parfait Ice Cream, Rodeo Donuts, Reuben’s Brews, Stoup Brewing, Gasworks Park, Pike Place Market, Kraken Congee, E.Smith Mercantile, Rhein Haus, Old Sage

Day 15 - Elm Coffee Roasters, Bar Sajor, London Plane, Seattle Taproom (in the airport!).

118 food and drink stops in 15 days spread over 2000 miles and three states.

Matt The Trips : Portland

Day 12 of #MattTheTrips West Coast USA road trip - our last day in Portland, featuring a great brunch at Tasty’N’Sons, and an exploration of Distillery Row. More pictures of the distilleries here. 

Route: Ristretto Coffee Roasters, Tasty’N’Sons, Hopworks Urban BikeBar, Wild Roots Vodka, Cup & Bar, Eastside Distilling, New Deal Distillery, Commons Brewery, Lardo, Ruby Jewel, Nossa Familia, Powell’s Books, Shift Drinks, McMenamin’s Bagdad Theatre.

Matt The Trips : Columbia Gorge - Multnomah Falls - Mt.Hood

Day 11 of #MattTheTrips West Coast USA road trip was possibly the best, a loop around Mt.Hood taking in Crown Point, Columbia Gorge, Cascade Locks, Thunder Island, Bridge of the Gods, Multnomah Falls, Horse Tail Falls, Hood River, Trillium Lake, and Timberline Lodge. Oh, and we managed to squeeze in four breweries, a cider tasting, and a quick jaunt in to the State of Washington!

Matt The Trips : Cascade Brewing

Photos from a mad three hour visit to Cascade Brewing in Portland, plus some bottles that made it to London one way or another.

Matt The Trips : Portland

Day 10 of #MattTheTrips West Coast USA road trip involved no less than 14 food and drink stops around Portland, including a 3 hours of sour power at Cascade Brewing. Photos of Cascade Brewing here.

Route: Coava, Fried Egg I’m In Love, Tov, Blue Star Donuts, Roman Candle Bakery,Salt & Straw, Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom, Tidbit Food Garden, Rogue Ales & Spirits, The Green Dragon, Cascade Brewing, Robo Taco, Rum Club, Voodoo Doughnuts.

Matt The Trips : Medford - Portland

Day 9 of #MattTheTrips West Coast USA road trip was another big day of driving covering 430+ miles, and we started early at 3.30am to reach Crater Lake before sunrise. There are more photos of Crater Lake here.

After breakfast at Crater Lake Lodge, we pushed on to Bend to for beers at Boneyard & Deschutes, coffee at Lone Pine, and sandwiches at Plankers, before heading deep in to the Willamette National Forest to find Proxy Falls.

As the sun was setting we made it to Rogue Ales & Spirits Chatoe Rogue Farms in Independence for a stunning tour of the hop fields and farm buildings. More photos here and here.

From there, a two hour drive took us to our AirBnb in Portland where we finished our day off with some local Sizzle Pie pizza, and some beers that we Hop Dogma & Anderson Valley beers that we picked up earlier on the trip.

A few snaps from Crater Lake on Day 9 of #MattTheTrips West Coast USA road trip. 

We left our AirBnb in Medford at 3.30am to get to the Watchman Overlook point round the West Rim Drive of Crater Lake before sunrise at 6am. It’s a magical place. Be sure to check out Phantom Ship overlook, and trek down to the water at Cleetwood Cove if you have time

Matt The Trips : Santa Rosa - Medford

Day 8 of #MattTheTrips West Coast USA road trip was a big day of driving through redwood forests rather than eating and drinking, but we did make it to Single Tree Inn, Flying Goat Coffee, Anderson Valley Brew Co. and The Peg House (not all pictured) on our epic 450 mile drive.