Hello, so yeah, I'm not from the area, most of what I've seen is very cursory. I mentioned I'm from southern California but I spent highschool in Humboldt County. I've got family from around Bend, and I lived in central WA for a couple years so I was able to explore a bit more.

I've got family in Ontario, Idaho. I visited again as an adult, but as a kid, the town kind had a worn down feeling that was a little unsettling. I liked the area around Walla Walla quite a bit, it's nicer in the summers than where I was living, but I looked it up just now, I guess the closest town was Milton-Freewater but I dont think I went there, Stateline was it's own weird little place. That's where I met the prepubescent and potentially future murderer -at the public pool. He stole birthday cake from the kids party I was attending.

And then in highschool I had a friend from what I thought might have been Burns, that's what I remembered anyway. It may have been Baker City, but I'm not quite sure. Small town, eastern Oregon. And he was hilarious but he had horror stories that were like a mix of the movies Lost Boys and Hostel, plus a lot more adolescent drug use and because I was semi-familiar with the area, it always spooked me a little.

Also in my border-land encyclopedia in my head, I walked across the Ecuador-Colombia border, and the Ecuador-Peru border. I watched police drag a guy off a bus in Peru, I still wonder about him. I got hustled for more cash than I was willing to spend crossing from Peru, on a Sunday when the banks were closed and came as close to a fist fight as I've ever been in. Crossing into Colombia, everyone has a mean mug on their face -like anyone who's ever lived in Bakersfield. But also, everyone had pinkeye, so I felt a little extra nervous. I'm no medic, but I avoided the water there more than anymore.

End rant. Thank you if you got this far. I'm just suspicious of border towns is all. And I stand by that sentiment thus far.