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The Urban Farmer @ The Nines Hotel

28. July 2009

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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).  As part of Raswan’s last hurrah in Oregon, we had lunch at the Urban Farmer, an atrium restaurant with a seven-story skylight.  Check out this link for [...]

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Brewfest 2009

27. July 2009

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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 = 1/3 [...]

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In Full Bloom

6. April 2009

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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 [...]

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2009 Portland Yard, Garden, & Patio Show

4. March 2009

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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 [...]

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Bike Friendly Portland

14. July 2008

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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 in [...]

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