My buddy and I stayed at the Division house for 5 days. He flew up from Dallas and I drove down from the Tacoma area. I come to Portland at least once a month, so I knew I wanted to stay on the South East side since there is (relatively) easy access to downtown and close to a bunch of really good breweries, restaurants and food carts. The location was important since we were going to be using the house as a jumping off point to explore breweries from Eugene to Astoria. Joe’s place ended up being even better than I had hoped. Lardo, Pine State Biscuits, Apex and the Beer Mongers were all steps from our front door and I found my new favorite breakfast truck in Matt’s BBQ Taco’s on Hawthorne. Parking in Portland can be a bit of a pain since the roads are typically pretty narrow and people usually park on both sides of the road. Joe’s place had plenty of parking on premises for 2 mid-sized SUV’s, which was a huge bonus! Checkin was super easy and the place was sparkling clean. It was pretty cold while we were there so we didn’t use the large covered patio, but we would have had there been some sort of fire feature out there. To top it off, Joe had a had a few local IPA’s and a Beer Mongers glass waiting for us in the fridge, since he knew we were into beer. That was super cool and very much appreciated. If there were a couple of minor drawbacks, I’d say there was a little more road noise from Division than I expected and the couch (which may have been new) was firm-hard. Neither of those things would be enough to dissuade me from staying at the Division house again, though. In fact, I may try to book it whenever I come down for long weekends instead of staying with friends or in a hotel.