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Newport + Beer & Cheese + Kettleball = Weekly Love

06.20.12

As PDX Beer Week came to a close this week, it’s a been a fun mix of beer and exercising to counterbalance the beer. This Week: Kettleball workout – I tried a kettleball workout for the first time this week (Lululemon had a free class at Skogg Kettleball gym at NW 10th/Everett). Intense! Fun though, I’ll definitely be trying it again. It was the kind of workout that you think, “I don’t think I can do this!” because it’s an 18 pound weight. But then you can, and you do, and it’s awesome! Evoe – finally stopped in to Evoe/Pastaworks Read more…

Soaking Pool at McMenamins Edgefield

07.07.09

Spa day! One of my birthday gifts this year was a massage at McMenamins Edgefield Ruby Spa, so the soybean and I had an impromptu girls day. It helps that our birthdays just happen to fall on the same day, so this was our gifts to each other this year. We picked the $45 30-minute massages and then used the soaking pool for a few hours. It was the cheapest option — even though there was a little bit of cringing after paying a few dollars for massages in SE Asia. I’m used to paying around $30 for a half Read more…

36 Hours in Bend, Oregon

06.19.09

I love the New York Times’ 36 Hours in [insert city name] articles, so here’s a NY Times inspired list in my neck of the woods — Bend, Oregon.  Although I spent longer than 36 hours in Bend (I used to live there after all), this list is an example of some of my favorite things in Bend.  (The NYT did a 36 Hours in Bend article in 2004, but since their population has almost doubled since then, Bend is a little different these days.) Central Oregon has always been a popular place for Portlanders to escape the drizzles of the Willamette Read more…

Olivia Raymer
Things I ♥: travel, food (I'm a pescatarian), the Pacific Northwest, bikes (I ride an orange mixte), beer (IPAs), summer, coffee, lists, and kittehs. Travel enthusiast, dabbler, and product manager at BootsnAll Travel Network.

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31 Before 31 List

1. Run a 5k
2. Eat completely local for one week
3. Go on an overnight bike trip
4. Roadtrip Hwy 101 to San Francisco
5. Visit all 31+ Breweries in PDX (7 left)
6. Try a new cocktail
7. Try wakeboarding
8. Go to Portugal
9 Take a 2+ week trip
10. Work remotely [not in Portland] for 1+ month
11. Get a piece of clothing tailored
12. Speak in front of 100+ people (at a conference etc)
13. Have a party at my house (ie. invite more than 4 people over)
14. Visit Hawaii again
15. Start a book club
16. Eat at Beast
17. Go to a Plate & Pitchfork dinner
18. Do a cleanse
19. Do another 30 day yoga challenge
20. Organize a group [bike] ride
21. Find a mentor
22. Paint a wall in my home
23. Go on a press trip
24. Sew something again
25. Do a month-long blogging project
26. Volunteer / do some pro bono work
27. Learn a song on the guitar
28. Find a karaoke song
29. Design a WordPress Theme
30. ____________
31. ____________