Powell's City of Books Portland

1005 W Burnside, Portland , Oregon, United States - Phone: 503 228 4651
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    Kitty cats, good company and good food

    After a delicious smoothie breakfast (juice, banana, berries, frozen peach, yoghurt in the osterizer for a bit) I was on my way. Susan gave me excellent directions on how to get into the express lane - so I missed the worst of the traffic getting out of Seattle. Getting around Puget Sound is a fair part of the journey <g>.

    The day …

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    Powell's, TriMet, Airport more good eats

    Breakfast at Shari's (http://www.sharis.com/) was healthy and filling and set us up for our trip on the TriMet transit (train speeding through a l-o-n-g three-mile tunnel under Portland's West Hills and bus into Cascade Plaza and Powell’s BIG bookstore – covers about a city block and is, I think, about 3 stories high. I wandered up and …

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    Portland

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    I took the opportunity for a bit of a sleep in at the Super 8 and made a leisurely drive. It was only a 2 and a bit hour drive but I was hoping the weather would clear so I could see Mount St. Helens which was having some intermediate "blurps" and threatening to explode again.

    Unfortunately, the entire valley (Cowlitz/Toutle) was covered …

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    Portland

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    ... joy when she discovered a new one.  It was pretty neat anyway.  On our Simpsons discovery walk we came across Powell's City of Books.  It is the largest independent bookstore in the world.  It is certainly large.  There are directions to various ...

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    Alice in Expensiveland

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    ... is nice, though; old brick buildings, trams, lots of greenery shading the streets . We walk to our sole reason for stopping: Powell's City of Books, the largest bookstore in the world. More than a million titles! For a my Mom, a librarian and me, a ...

  • 3

    Fort Vancouver and OMSI

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    ... OMSI). Both places were a lot of fun and educational. The kids loved both places. We had dinner at Henry's (as in Henry Weinhard) downtwn. It's a fun place to eat, and they have a HUGE menu. Went to our favorite bookstore Powell's City of ...

  • 4

    Portland

    ... suggested going, thinking, "Hey that sounds like fun...wine, food, entertainment all in one place." It was a major rip off. We drove back to Portland... Went shopping late in the evening at Powell's City of Books, the best book store on the ...

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    Portland - and Powell's City of Books

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    ... : Matthew and Kory This entry's blogger: Kory If I ever "go missing," I'll tell you now where to look for me: in Powell's City of Books in Portland. But it's so huge, you may still not be able to find me. I was familiar with Powell's, the world's ...

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    Back in a big city!

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    ... capital of North America), before we moved to another one on the way to the largest independent bookstore in North America. Powell's City of Books takes up a whole city block and comprises five levels of new and used books that could keep you busy for a ...

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    Books and Doughnuts

    ... sized book shop in Portland from the border guard at the Mexican border (of all places!), and it turned out it was the Powell's City of Books right near where we had that sandwiches, so we headed on over armed with some travel guides to trade.  This ...

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    Day Seven - Fancy Buildings and Lots of Books

    ... . We visited some fancy-dancy theaters on that tour. It was very interesting.   After lunch, we walked to Powell's City of Books, the largest independent bookstore in the world. They had 16 different copies of Alice in Wonderland. It was that big. ...

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    Portland again

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    ... us, until we got back to the railway line to catch a train back to downtown. Back in downtown, we made our way back to Powell's City of Books so Brooke could buy a book and Mike couldn't resist and bought another one! Brooke's made sure all the books for ...