Comfort Suites Portland Airport

I just discovered this great new website for travel blogging, so here goes my first entry. We are planning our 2010 big adventure to Europe, flying into Munich and seeing where the road takes us for 8 days. We will definitely get to Switzerland, perhaps a day in Salzburg, and who knows ??? We'ell be traveling with our good friends from San Diego...

Off to the bus station to get a grehound to Portland. I had heard good
things about Portland so was looking forward to see what it had to
offer. After a short walk from the bus station we were in the centre
of downtown to enjoy a coffee and work out suitable accomodation. It was
here we met up with Graham and Lauren, a young coup...

On Tuesday, the doubletree housed the Green Professionals Conference. This had been my primary reason for selecting said hotel and it worked out wonderfully as I could take my time eating breakfast, which was provided free at the conference, putter around, check my email ,register and smooze. I had the privilege of attending a mixer the night pr...

Portland, Oregon, is one of our favorite destinations for a weekend getaway. It is not a large city, but big enough for our tastes and is beautiful and vibrant.

Portland has a highly functional Metro, and its easy and cheap (just over $2) to get into the heart of the city directly from PDX airport. The airport is modern and very functi...

We're out of Idaho (with no burning desire to return) and through the yellowed-grass small towns of eastern Oregon (no great need to drive this section of I-84 again either). As we head north, our freeway abuts the Columbia River, and the scenery becomes green again. Around mid-day, we pull into the little town of Hood River, about an hour from ...

Woken to the sound of desperate meowing coming from my feet, closely followed by a soft tickling sensation as - what i eventually realised was - the cat brushed up against me, closely followed by that delicate sandpaper tongue as it tried to get my attention by licking my toes. Avoiding the temptation to kick the offending feline in the head and...

Day 11: Portland to Portland? Miles covered: about 30 !!! Abby meltdown: don't recall one -- maybe we just didn't notice b/c we weren't in a closed vehicle for 8 hours weather: very pleasant, though a bit overcast -- in the 70s (sorry to those backing back east) highlights: not being in van; dinner @ Burgerville Huh? Having reached the west coas...

2:50 pm So, I'm used to travelling, right. I mean, my mom is a travel agent, and I've been taking planes and going on road trips since I was about 4. So there's nothing new there. Except for the fact that this time, I'm alone. Yelp. It's not that I'm scared or anything or that I don't know what to do or how an airport and customs work. But I ten...