Holiday Inn Portland-Airport (I-205), Or

... Peanuts, Ice Cream Sandwich, Chocolate chip cookies, Zucchini Sticks, Banana Nut Bread, Ginger Snaps, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Diet Cola, Hotdog....wow I can't eat another bite.

The came was exciting with trail blazers coming from behind winning 98 - 96...More importantly, I spent a great evening with my brother.

since my last entry I have been struck with tons of tragedy having lost my mother,uncle and cousin within 75 days, now the time is to wrap up the sale of my moms house and use the returns to get new video equipment, my goal is to finish this before ...

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... and through downtown Portland.

We ate at the Rheinlander.

We drove to the Columbia River Gorge.

We saw Crowne Point.

We saw Multnomah Falls.

We had seafood and a raw oyster plate outside of Troutdale.

We drove to Beaverton.

... and the 49 year old Organutuan who enjoys looking at other children's outfits. The zoo was very nice but had no animals from Austailila or Asia! Way to miss half the world Portland...
We also went to the rose gardens which overlooked the city. I guess they test out new hybrids here which is why there was so many different types. A lady playing some weird instrument was also there; I gave her a dollar.

Chillin in the burbs

I spent a lot ...

... of history and a new city around me -- even with the newspaper-selling streetguy laying it out for me -- my bias is to view things in stasis. I met a business associate for happy hour after her work yesterday (great Peruvian restaurant called Andina) . Lori is a project manager for a non-profit education organization, but her real passion right now is her community south of Portland. She's working on an incorporation plan for the 100,000 ...

... were going to be a staple of my diet in America, so this 16 hour journey would certainly bring it home as to life travelling through the states. However, despite my initial concerns about how to pass the time I needn't have worried because my journey was pleasant and smooth running, this I felt was in part to my neighbour Dave. Forget Ben Elton's rants about getting a double seat, Amtrak had obviously been warned that there was a Limey in the house and I was told ...

... isn't, it's a perfect place for an investigative journalist to blow a story wide open. It's not that don't want security on airline travel, it's just that I want _effective_ security on airline travel. And right now it seems like they are being terribly ineffective. I guess the way I see it, if you're going to be that ineffective, then why do it at all? Still hungry and thirsty, I walked through the hallway of mass capitalism in the Beijing airport. Westernized **** everywhere in ...

I'm afraid I don't have much info or memory about this trip--sad, I know. But it was too long ago. I do know I got to go antiquing in Sellwood, 'cause I found the receipt for a couple of sconces I bought at the Sellwood Collective. Hopefully someday I'll find more clues or pictures or something to trigger some memories...