i just picked my plane tickets from LA (ouch) but yeah. i'm a member of the couchsurfing community and was offered a place to crash in salem, where it enters totality around 1030am that morning. this post has me realizing this is a bit of a roll of the dice- better come up with a backup plan if she had to cancel!

airbnb rates are ridiculous but i found a low-cost room via airbnb in portland an hour away for the preceding weekend to basically have a cosmic rave stretch of days for my first time in the city!