Portland Oregon rocks! ...

[Laurel]

Re: PortOre bashment 2008! ...

DUDEE .... oh my gosh - what a fun time ... I spied LB right away hat shopping -

that pirates place looks like a HOOT!!!

[turtledude]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LulaBell</div><div class="ubbcode-body">oh my gosh ... I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Blues!!

hmmm - I wonder if I can talk Bill and Jody into cross country road trippin ~ [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/dance01.gif[/img] </div></div>

or Fly in...I'll bet they will have fares for $200 from there. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

[Ochigal]

Re: PortOre bashment 2008! ...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LulaBell</div><div class="ubbcode-body">oh my gosh ... I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Blues!!

hmmm - I wonder if I can talk Bill and Jody into cross country road trippin ~ [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/dance01.gif[/img] </div></div>

Who's Bill and Jodie???

But yes yes...road trip!!!!

[Laurel]

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Jodie is my long long loooonnnng time friend (she is hidden), Bill is her husband ~ the flame head is their dawta ~ Lauren ...

they all joined the Apostles Weekend ~

[Laurel]

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I have already been scooping out flight ... $$$$ at the moment _

sure would be some kind of fun ....

[Q3210]

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Hey T Dude, I have been to LA once and the landscape there is parchy brown especially the hills surrounding.

I know I didnt see much but Santa Monica pier was the best that I saw.

What are the striking differences that make Portland a better place given that both are Pacific coastal cities.

Ohh and there is Seattle...when it`s not raining, I hear.

[f0rTyLeGz]

Re: PortOre bashment 2008! ...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
What are the striking differences that make Portland a better place given that both are Pacific coastal cities.

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Well there is this in todays NYTimes...

<span style='font-size: 14pt'>In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking</span>


THEY come but they don’t go.

In the way New York drew artists in the ’50s, this city at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers seems to exert a magnetic lure on talented chefs who come from almost anywhere else and decide to stay right here. About the hardest thing to find in Portland these days is a homegrown chef.

Portland may seem an unlikely place for such status, a city destined to play second string on the West Coast to San Francisco and Seattle. But in the last five years or so Portland has grown and evolved.

At first it was a sort of underground stop for food and wine lovers who had heard word of small, fascinating restaurants run by young, talented chefs serving a bounty of local produce. It’s underground no more. Portland has emerged from its chrysalis as a full-fledged dining destination.

This is a golden age of dining and drinking in a city that 15 years ago was about as cutting edge as a tomato in January. Every little neighborhood in this city of funky neighborhoods now seems to be exploding with restaurants, food shops and markets, all benefiting from a critical mass of passion, skill and experience, and all constructed according to the gospel of locally grown ingredients.

In close proximity is a cadre of farmers committed to growing environmentally responsible produce with maximum flavor, delivered to restaurants and to the gorgeous farmers’ markets that dot the city. There are local fisheries and small beef, lamb and pork producers. Not far away is the Hood River Valley, with its myriad fruit growers who supply glistening, fragile berries and stonefruits of every stripe and color.

World-class wine is produced in the Willamette Valley, the center of the Oregon wine industry, just a half hour’s drive away. Portland has six micro-distilleries making any kind of spirits you can name and, if you’d like a chaser, more breweries than any other city on earth. Just as important is a receptive populace, demanding yet eager to be wowed.

Portland also has what anybody in the restaurant business will tell you is most important of all: affordable real estate. Just as young, passionate chefs flocked to the East Village and Brooklyn in the 1990s, chefs have gravitated to Portland because it lets them have a vision and take risks without lining up corporate backers and lawyers.

“This is one of the very few places on the West Coast that has been an affordable place to live,” said Andy Ricker, who in 2005 opened Pok Pok, which started under his obsessive eye as a ramshackle Thai takeout shack and now has a hip little dining room as well. “There are a ton of people here who are going at it in sort of an indie rock way, mostly because they can.”

Mr. Ricker is a perfect example. Originally from Vermont, he spent years cooking around the world before following a girl to Portland in the early 1990s. He got a job at Zefiro, an Italian restaurant that set a standard for Portland cooking back then. Restless, he left the business and became a house painter, saving money and traveling to southeast Asia for three or four months at a time. He also bought two houses and sold them, taking advantage of a rising real estate market so he could finance his vision of a southeast Asian restaurant without having to satisfy financial backers.

Now, he’s won acclaim for dishes like juicy game hens roasted over charcoal and stuffed with lemon grass, garlic, pepper and cilantro, and local pork loin marinated in coconut milk and turmeric, and served with peanut sauce.

“You could never open a place that was completely a shot in the dark in San Francisco or New York because the costs are so prohibitive,” he said.

Costs were a major concern to Vitaly and Kimberly Paley, who arrived with an earlier wave of restaurant immigrants in 1994. Eager for a fresh start after working in some of Manhattan’s most illustrious restaurants, they toured the West Coast, finally settling on Portland.

“We sold our 500-square-foot New York apartment, and with the money, we bought a house with a swimming pool, two cars, and had enough left to open a restaurant,” Mr. Paley said.

more

[turtledude]

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....besides what 40LgZ sez....it's green, it's only an hour away from either surfing, or snow skiing, it has a great transit system, it's colorful, eclectic, classy in a different way, not entrenched in stale ideas, addresses the "homeless" issue,....it's clean beyond belief, pet friendly, and people are outdoors everywhere! That's what I see.

[turtledude]

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...random images of Portland.









...and a gallery link HERE [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]


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[Bandana]

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The pic of Mount Hood is beautiful...


What a great city...

I am super excited to have this bashment. I hope lots of people decide to come! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img]


Maybe we should start an official Portland Oregon Bashment thread [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]


We can come up with suggestions on places to stay, and where to meet...


Maybe a park (there are plenty [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif[/img] ) and we could get catered food from Montego Bay resturant [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img] Jamaican Food [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img]

[trelawnysmall]

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Not really paying attention to the posts, then I see this. I'm here in Portland until I head back to my home in Jamaica. I am working in Portland right now, but my family lives in the country, in a small town called St Helens, close to the Columbian River. I like this area very much, for the summer time, but when I arrived in April even then it was too dreary for me. Many days of gray sky and rain. I did that style of living years ago when I lived in New Zealand. Weeks upon weeks of rain, but hey it keeps everything green.
So I vote Portland as a nice city.

[turtledude]

Reh Bandelooo ...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bandanna</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The pic of Mount Hood is beautiful...


What a great city...

I am super excited to have this bashment. I hope lots of people decide to come! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img]


Maybe we should start an official Portland Oregon Bashment thread [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]


We can come up with suggestions on places to stay, and where to meet...


Maybe a park (there are plenty [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif[/img] ) and we could get catered food from Montego Bay resturant [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img] Jamaican Food [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img]




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[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] <span style='font-size: 17pt'> <span style="color: #FF0000"> OK!!! Dis chred beclared ofishally atta ODER...an Ofishally closdung </span> </span> [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/dizzy.gif[/img] Bandi...is now Ofishally deh wan PortlanOreBatchmant Lawnchairman. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bannana_purple.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bannana_purple.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/breakdance.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/breakdance.gif[/img] <span style='font-size: 11pt'> <span style="color: #3333FF"> .............tyme fe openz udder chred, gyal!!!!!!.........</span> </span>

[Ochigal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey T Dude, I have been to LA once and the landscape there is parchy brown especially the hills surrounding.

I know I didnt see much but Santa Monica pier was the best that I saw.

What are the striking differences that make Portland a better place given that both are Pacific coastal cities.

Ohh and there is Seattle...when it`s not raining, I hear. </div></div>

Q...both may be on the Pacific Coast but so are Alaska and Mexico...doesnt make them the same.

LA and Portland are in two different worlds. Cant even compare the two. And dont believe everything you hear...

To quote wikipedia:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Seattle has a mild climate that is usually classified as Marine west coast (Cfb).[33] However, due to its wet-winter dry-summer pattern, it shows some characteristics of a Mediterranean climate (Csb), and is sometimes classified this way.[34] Temperature extremes are moderated by adjacent Puget Sound and Lake Washington as well as the more distant Pacific Ocean. The region is partially protected from Pacific storms by the Olympic Mountains and from Arctic air by the Cascade Range. Despite being on the margin of the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains, the city of Seattle has a reputation for frequent rain.[35] In reality, the so-called "rainy city" receives an unremarkable 37.1 inches (94.2 cm) of precipitation a year,[36] which is much less precipitation than New York City, Atlanta, and Houston and most cities of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Seattle's worldwide reputation for rain derives from the fact that it is cloudy (not rainy) an average of 226 days per year (vs. 132 in New York City). Most of the precipitation falls as drizzle or light rain, with downpours happening only occasionally. </div></div>

[Ochigal]

Re: PortOre bashment 2008! ...

sorry...me get likkle defensive when someone talks about Seattle!!

[Bandana]

Reh Bandelooo ...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: turtledude</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bandanna</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The pic of Mount Hood is beautiful...


What a great city...

I am super excited to have this bashment. I hope lots of people decide to come! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img]


Maybe we should start an official Portland Oregon Bashment thread [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]


We can come up with suggestions on places to stay, and where to meet...


Maybe a park (there are plenty [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif[/img] ) and we could get catered food from Montego Bay resturant [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img] Jamaican Food [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70377-loveeyes.gif[/img]




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[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] <span style='font-size: 17pt'> <span style="color: #FF0000"> OK!!! Dis chred beclared ofishally atta ODER...an Ofishally closdung </span> </span> [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/dizzy.gif[/img] Bandi...is now Ofishally deh wan PortlanOreBatchmant Lawnchairman. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bannana_purple.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bannana_purple.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/breakdance.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/breakdance.gif[/img] <span style='font-size: 11pt'> <span style="color: #3333FF"> .............tyme fe openz udder chred, gyal!!!!!!.........</span> </span> </div></div>


Thank you, thank you.

It is such an honor to have been nominated the PortlanOreBatchmant Lawnchairwoman you have made a good decision [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

Mi soon start the thread in the correct forum [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]


An mi promise to only tief 2 of your pics [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]