Portland International Airport said on March 5 it expected to have served its 300 millionth passenger since beginning operations 66 years ago. PDX also apparently set an all-time record of more than 14 million passengers served in 2006.
The Portland Saturday Market, now in its 33rd year, is once again open for business.
A new book titled Read Portland: The City in Prose has gotten a write up in the Portland Mercury. The book, which engages in a “literary exploration of the city’s past and present” via almost eighty written selections of various authors and forms of written word, …
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I like reading travel info about whatever city I’m living in. I can usually discover new places, or at least laugh at how ‘off’ a writer can be. The New York Times gave Portland its time in the…errr, clouds….recently:
At first glance, late fall does not recommend Portland. The sky turns the color of old oysters. Clouds obscure the inspiring Dairy Queen dollop of volcanic Mount Hood until May. Rain drools from eaves.
Just because winter is fitfully settling in, however, doesn’t mean the residents are doing the same. The Rose City, so frequently dismissed by Seattleites and San Franciscans by …
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