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Portland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Portland, United States
DAY 7 -- Farewell Lake George,hello biker butts...
This is a top pick! Oh, a sad day, but it was bound to come. We are all ready to go home by now, but really not looking forward to going back to work. The horror! Appropriate to our mood, the day is a little stormy looking, grey when we start out and increasingly ...
Quick stop in the USA on the way to South America
This is a top pick! We Said: Just a quick 36-hour stop in Portland to visit family and winterize the wardrobe before heading south to Lima, Peru! We'll have a comments and observations on the culture shock of being back in the USA posted when we return back here in ...
Hostel Moses!
This is a top pick! Day 141 May 24th continued - The road from Boise to Portland was again amazing! I tried desperately hard to keep my eyes open for the seven hour journey but after a while, the crazy time in Boise got to me and sleep ensued! The last hour of the ...
THE CITY THAT CARES
This is a top pick! ... the city was a hilly Forest Park, a Botanical Gardens, a rose garden, and other natural areas that covered many acres of Portland with attractive trails. The Portlanducks seemed happy, and they were very approachable and quick to converse. It was a very ...
I'm home!
This is a top pick! I sit cross-legged, luxuriating in the cotton embrace of clean sheets. The computer monitor illuminates the pre-dawn, and the sounds of home float through the silence like music. Oh, that is music. One of the beauties of not having traveled with ...
Leaving Home, for good
This is a top pick! We're moving out of our downtown apartment and smashing our entire lives into a 10X10 box. Moving out is never fun, everyone hates some portion of it, if not all of it. Moving isn't even fun when you're doing it to go on an awesome vacation. Though I ...
Portland
This is a top pick! ... of driving we finally made it to Portland. We were not sure what to expect but were quite pleased with what we experienced. Portland isn't the prettiest of towns on the whole, but it makes up for it with its well-defined neighbourhoods and very ...
links i found useful
This is a top pick! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here are some web sites I found useful during my travels: world **Backpacking Round-the-World: http://travelindependent.info *Lonely Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.com *Boot n' All: ...
Portland Part Deux!
This is a top pick! ... fair the sign did say that it was an easy 1 mile climb to the top so it couldn't be that bad? Well either the people of Portland are extraordinarily fit, or we are really unfit as we were past by a couple of old dears power walking to the top and kids as ...
Another 18 hour train journey...
This is a top pick! ... said and done, it did make the trip to Portland go a little quicker! I, as most of you, had never heard of Portland. I had been emailing a guy called Sean for advice on travelling for a couple of months. He runs a travel website with another bloke ...
Q and A
This is a top pick! ... just because accomodation was such a pain there...but the city itself is nice. Q6. When are you coming home? A6. I am home (in Portland). As for when I'm coming home after the next bit, I don't know. Depends on if I can get a job in Australia. Q7. ...
Family and friends in Portland
This is a top pick! We Said: We spent a few weeks in and around Portland visiting friends in the region, celebrating a family wedding, and catching up with all our relatives. Besides the big wedding we were able to get out and see a few sites further afield. Highlights ...
outtakes (pictures)
This is a top pick! While sorting through my photos, I came across a bunch of silly ones and extras from people I travelled with that never got posted so I'll include those with this posting. Josh was particularly good at getting pictures of me looking stupid. Becky and Jon ...
pubcrawl
This is a top pick! The pubcrawl last night was lots of fun. Thanks to all that made it out to see me off. I'm told the monkey went home with Rich. I hope he enjoyed the company and the monkey finds its way back to its owner (Mary). I'll include a collage pic for you all. ...
Stats 101
This is a top pick! ___ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here are some statistics from my trip: 1. number of countries visited = 52 2. number of flights = 43 3. total flight miles = 96,638 4. # of flights where people stayed seated til plane ...
Keeping Portland Weird
This is a top pick! ... there so we went down to sample a few brews. It was a bit too crowded to really get into it though. We also went to a Portland Timbers game. They were playing the Chivas from LA. They lost 1-0 against the run of play (when I root I root for the Timbers) ...
webpage of previous travel pics
This is a top pick! This page has pics from some of my previous trips: ...
Welcome Page
This is a top pick! ... a visit home. First stopped in L.A. and visited Tony then we went south of the border to visit Marcela. Surprised friends back in Portland with a visit and also saw the family there and in Seattle. Spent a couple weeks in Costa Rica, but unfortunately it ...
last day of work
This is a top pick! Today was my last day of work, though it still doesn't really feel like it. The reality of my leaving has yet to set in. Maybe when I actually arrive in London it will. Everyone at Nike has been very supportive of me and are all excited for my trip. ...
life at home (post-travel)
This is a top pick! ... goes to a foreign country and speaks English REALLY LOUD and sllllooowwww expecting that to make people understand? FYI people, the United States doesn't even have an official language. And, technically, ALL of North and South America are part of ...
fin
This is a top pick! ... for travel instead. Now I'm broke and in debt. Not much lucky about that. I am lucky to have been born in the United States and all the privileges and possibilities that allows. There are so many countries in this world where being born there pretty much ...
Portland - A breath of fresh air. Very fresh...
This is a top pick! ... road or being allowed to turn through red lights! This afternoon we visited the Bullseye glass factory - the main raison d'etre in Portland. We were given a tour of the factory and I was then left to ponder what to buy and ship home. A ...
The Pacific Northwest - Washington & Oregon
This is a top pick! Max: We met acquaintances of Kathy's for lunch on arrival at Port Angeles back in Washington State, went to a mountain lookout called Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park (magnificent views of a majestic, snowy mountain range), had more rain, ...
City of Roses
This is a top pick! ... the deserts. There were also a few micro breweries around to check, sadly we didn't make it to them all, but I tried, I sure tried. Portland is also home to Oaks Park, an old style amusement park a little out of town. We headed over there to hit a ...
sail boats and ships and water vessles
Played at the Dog Fish, met up with friend GPP all the way from Boston. Got to meet friends he grew up with. Rained soft that night. I thought and inquired about climbing Mt. Washington, but learned it was not an option. Interesting day of reflection and ...
The End of the First Year
So the school year ended. Without fanfare. Without drawn out reflections, without tears, without one last pep talk or motivational lecture. I simply signed some yearbooks, wished my students well and locked the door behind them. I wrote no poems, no ...
Fall Has Come Early to the City of Portland
Fall Has Come Early to the City of Portland Rain, cold weather, and greyness began early this year. Heavy rain began September 29th, and we've only had peeks of sun since then. As I chug through pre-departure preparations, I keep my spirits up knowing ...