We’re gonna be in Portland this weekend at the launch of the 2012 Hyundai Veloster at the boutique Jupiter Hotel, and the crew at Hyundai have quite a full 12-course meal of activities in front of us. It’s gonna be a doozy, but we’ll throw up a gallery of the weekend as it goes down. First we’ll be attending the MusicFest NW nightly (with a line-up that includes Band Of Horses, Joy Formidable, Explosions In the Sky, MSTRKRFT, OFF!, Little Dragon, Sleepy Sun, et al), dinner at the Noble Rot restaurant and Burnside Brewery, wanderings of downtown Portland (including the famous food truck park), then finally there’s the Oregon vs. University of Nevada football game on Saturday (go Bruins!). Looks to be a good shakedown of some of what Portland has to offer, can’t wait — I just hope the 8 am wake-up calls don’t hurt too bad. Not so sure that music festivals, a brewery-based economy and car testdriving are a winning combo, but we’re willing to give it a shot… we’re American heroes like that…