June is a such an awesome collision of Pedalpalooza, PDX Beer Week, and almost summer-ness (still waiting!). There’s always something fun to do… This Week: Pedalpalooza – it’s three whole weeks of bikey fun this year! I went on the Hot Socks ride on Saturday. What’s that? Everyone wears awesome socks and we rode to both Sock Dreams in Sellwood and Sock It To Me in SE. I…
June is one of my favorite months of the year — for it brings summer, the longest day of light for the year, and a few months of less rain. Oh, and my birthday. This Week: Salt & Straw Ice Cream – naturally, I had to order the pear with blue cheese (Rogue Creamer’s Crater Lake) from Salt & Straw. It was fantastic. Mt Tabor – my grandma…
Have I mentioned yet that it’s good to be home? I covered a surprising amount of ground in the last week — visiting some of my favorite Portland places like Rum Club, 12th/Hawthorne food carts, Laurelhurst Theater, Boke Bowl, and the farmers market. I also got to check out a few new places. Home, sweet, home. This Week: Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen – I found my new favorite…
After working remotely from Hawaii in March, I was a little worried that following up with a month in Florida would be a bit anticlimactic. That’s the beautiful thing about expectations though… I loved living less than a mile from the beach, and just like anywhere I’ve ever been for more than three weeks… I started to see myself in how I would live there (… of course,…
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10 Things To Eat in Portland – My Favorite Food & Drinks!
May 22, 2012
Exploring Portland’s foodie offerings has become one of our city’s best tourist attractions. While we don’t have a notoriously tall tower or world-famous museums to check off your list, we do have some of the world’s best food carts and coffee shops. And hands down the best cheap eats in the country. When it comes to things to eat in Portland – from coffee to cocktails, and vegan…
From my Instagram pictures, you’d think all I’ve been doing in Florida is walking the beach and collecting shells. This is only partially true. This Week: Beach House in Orlando – The band! Not an actual house. Sometimes things look closer on a map. After seeing that Beach House won’t be coming through Portland on this tour, we decided it would be fun to drive the two hours…
Three weeks in, and I’m starting to feel like a local around here. Usually this means I’m getting itchy feet and about ready to move on. I am loving the beach life though. As much of the Northwest girl that I am, I think I love the beach and sunshine just as much… or whatever I’m currently engrossed in anyway. Life is good living in the present! This…
Into my second week of Florida retiree living, and I’m loving the weather. I’d still like to transport some Portland coffee shops and food carts here, but I’ll survive a few more weeks I’m sure. Here’s what’s been keeping me busy this week. This week: Sarasota – we attended a very Great Gatsby-ish wedding in Sarasota over the weekend (although I think the theme was something about spring…
Greetings from the Sunshine State! Round two of my “work remotely in 2012” goal has brought us to Florida for a bit. Hello, sunshine! This Week Dirty Minds – I joined my coworker Jessica at Powell’s Hawthorne last week to catch Kayt Sukel’s book reading. She’s a travel blogger and new author, and it was interesting to hear her talk about this book and chat with her afterwords.…
“ideas are important. Creators need an immediate connection to what they create. […] You need to see effect immediately. […] So much of creation is discovery and you can’t discover anything if you can’t see what you’re doing.” –Bret Victor As I mentioned in last week’s Weekly Love, I recently watched Bret Victor‘s Inventing on Principle talk. It’s 54 minutes — but worth it. I wrote down a…
Spring is in full bloom around here — bring on the sunshine! Here’s what I’ve been loving this week. This week: -neighborhood breweries – Migration Brewing is quite possibly my favorite brewery in Portland because it’s super relaxed and a great place to take in a bit of sunshine out on the picnic tables. I also tried a new brewery this week — Coalition Brewing over by Crema…
After being back in Portland for what seemed like just a few days, we headed to Scottsdale, Arizona for JSConf. Newsflash: my skills in nerdliness have not increased that much in the few weeks since I designed my WordPress theme. I was there for the ‘significant others’ track. Say what? A cool idea, indeed. An even cooler idea on my part would have been taking a vacation along…