Top 10 Off-Beat Portland Sights

Top 10 Off-Beat Portland Sights

Portland is an off-beat kinda place. Its a city that long ago adopted the unofficial mantra “Keep Portland Weird.” In honor of the city’s “weird” spirit, we present for your consideration Portland’s Top 10 Off-Beat Sights. These are...
Amtrak Train Ride: A Review

Amtrak Train Ride: A Review

If you’re anything like me, perhaps you’ve fantasized about what it would be like to take a train ride. Having watched classic Hollywood films from the Golden Age of film and read books like ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ I possessed a somewhat...
Book Review : The Lost City of the Monkey God

Book Review : The Lost City of the Monkey God

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston I am the sort of traveler that always has a carry-on full of books. I trade them out for different ones all the time whether I have read all of the previous ones or not. I am a bibliophile to an extreme degree and...
A Visit to the Portland Art Museum

A Visit to the Portland Art Museum

Don’t you love a nice, relaxing visit to the art museum? It’s a perfect rainy-day activity and for Portland, with its tendency towards humidity and fairly frequent precipitation, this is an important option to have in your back-pocket for when it...