Last weekend we visited Astoria, Oregon for Valentines Day weekend . . .

I’m pretty excited about what the Federal High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program contains for Portland and the Northwest.

The author of Planologie, a blog dedicated to considering the ways we live, build, move, and think, recently spent a few days in Portland, after also visiting Vancouver and Seattle.

Storm watching builds up a thirst and appetite.

As luck would have it the weekend we chose to make a trip to the coast featured prime storm watching.

The Rose City gets the National Geographic Traveler treatment in the November/December 2009 issue.

The SP 4449, the star of Portland’s National Train Day celebration last May, arrives back in Portland today after a summer tour of the Midwest.

When we last left off, Heather and I were in Elko, Nevada visiting my brother and his family. On the return trip we decided to make a stop at Oregon’s only National Park, Crater Lake, which neither of us had ever visited.

We arrived early enough to secure a camp site at [...]

Of course Elko, Nevada is fabulous but the real reason we drove 11 hours (of which Heather drove all but 15 miles) to the small Northern Nevada cow and mining town was to visit my brother Steve, and his family.

Update: Shawn Levy tells us on his blog Mad About Movies that this short film was created by Portland filmmaker James Westby!
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