garland and i arrived in seattle three years ago today. i remember the 14-hour drive up from san francisco very clearly: katy meowing the entire way, wrestling in a safeway parking lot after a mutual hissy fit (garland won), treacherous highway switchbacks in southern oregon, our cracking falsettos - trying to keep up with joni, and secretly cursing the fact that a certain someone never got his driver's license.

it was glamorous. the city itself, at least. and it is still.