Hiya Faydra. OR is my favorite state in the country since it's home to Hood River - windsurfing go to place. Welcome here and I see you started a journal with a catchy name, clever!

As for pasta, at some point you should probably try the different variants of shirataki - not such a good wheat noodle substitue but decent for stuff that had rice noodle maybe. I like it at least.

Love the Trike too!