Category Portland
PDX with Justin & Eve
September’s here! And with it the lull of summer “vacation” has ended: Everyone’s intensity-level at work is ramping up, and I’ve got every weekend booked with plans from here to Christmas. Well, maybe not Christmas (yet) — but I will be traveling every weekend in September, and at least one or two in October. The […]
Gritti in PDX
One of my best friends from my days studying in France is a German girl named Grit. She lives in Berlin, works as a freelance journalist for the Deutsche Welle, and is one of those special souls who, if I didn’t already have a twin sister, I might have suspected of being my twin separated at birth. About […]
Playing in Portland: Gardens & Art
We got up early on Sunday morning and headed back out to the Division Street neighborhood where we’d been the day before. Vanessa had recommended Pine State Biscuits as a good place for lunch, so we thought we’d check it out. In what began to feel like deja vu, we stood in line for a […]
Playing in Portland: N Mississippi Ave & SE Division Street
Okay, so if it’s Presidents’ Day weekend and you don’t get the holiday off of work, it’s just a normal weekend, right? Wrong! It’s time for a road trip to Portland with Amanda! Amanda flew in from Denver on Friday night and I picked her up at the airport. We were both on THE VERGE OF […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 