Exploring the Columbia River Gorge
Exploring the sites along the Columbia River Gorge for our last day of vacation.
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A View of Portland from Pittock Mansion and Dinner at Kachka
From the Willamette Valley to Portland to get in some history and dinner at Kachka.
A Saturday in Portland Writing Exploring Powells World of Books and Eating at Ox
My second day in Portland ruminating on food writing and eating at the heralded restaurant Ox.
Writing About Minnesota Food in Portland
A trip to Portland leads to pondering on purpose and Minnesota food.
Tasty and Sons a Portlandia Brunch Experience
A perfect Portlandia brunch.
Brunch at The Country Cat Boots Books and More on a Portland Saturday
Wandering around Portland on a September Saturday.
Driving to Portland on a Friday and Eating at Nostrana
To leave Seattle on a Friday afternoon to drive anywhere is a tricky thing – but to drive South through Tacoma and Olympia with a state fair and road construction is even more fun. But alas PDX for the heck of it weekend awaited us so we tried an alternate route and found – traffic. … Read more
Fault Lines Poetry, Cartopia and the Woodsman
This morning I woke up in another dimension – perhaps it was the sunlight of mythical Portlandia streaming through the window of my friends' apartment beaming me awake at 7:30am. Perhaps it was the adrenalin rush of reading poetry in a totally public place like a farmer's market. Perhaps my manhattan at dinner was one … Read more
PDX in 5 and the Urban Farmer
Recently Seattle was rated by someone as having the worst traffic in the entire United States. My well-planned drive to Portland on a Friday afternoon cemented this sentiment in a real life 3 hour inch fest for 61 miles from Seattle to Olympia. I reached PDX in 5 hours. All was well upon my arrival … Read more