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As always, the Oregon Brewers Festival is held in at the Portland Waterfront on the last full weekend in July.  It’s a four day event from Thursday to Sunday and I managed to go taste some craft beers on Thursday and Friday.  I stayed away from the IPAs and stuck to the lighter beers, but [...]

You know what they say… baby steps.  These are my itty bitty steps as I get back to updating and posting again.  This was a recent dinner at EaT: An Oyster Bar, a restaurant specializing in Cajun/Creole food. Fried okra.  After I had okra for the first time in Greece, I vowed never to eat [...]

The Nines is a luxury hotel in the heart of downtown Portland. It houses two restaurants – Departure (modern Asian fare) and The Urban Farmer (a modern steakhouse).

The Oregon Brewers Festival was this past weekend.  I attended with my brother and his friends Johnny and Jeolida. My brother and I.  I lurve him!  [In one of the Facebook photos of us, he captions: "At least I'm the second best looking person in my family."  Awww...] $1 = 1 token = 1 taste [...]

You know what’s great about Flickr?  I did a search for pictures tagged with “Portland” “waterfront” and “cherry” within the last three days, so I could see if the cherry blossoms at the waterfront were in full bloom yet.  And yes, they are.  I went there this afternoon and had a nice stroll along the [...]

Before I forget, I wanted to post some pictures from my trip to the Portland Yard, Garden, and Patio show.  My mom and I made the trip out to the Oregon Convention Center to a busy venue.  Inside was everything I would expect from an event like this – seed and plants for sale, landscape [...]

This segment was shown last week on NBC Nightly News, but it’s worth a watch for those that haven’t seen it.  It’s about Portland, Oregon, which is widely regarded as the most bike friendly city in America.  6% of workers commute by bike, on over 170 miles of bike lanes. Actually, Ras’ cousin Jake is [...]

I’ve uploaded my 4th of July firework pictures to Flickr. The firework show downtown was ok – good but not fantastic. Still, it was nice to get out and be festive with everyone. The pictures turned out ok for my first attempt at firework pictures. This was despite the fact that I didn’t even have [...]