Travel

Or, this post should be more aptly titled, “San Francisco: A Guide to the Things I Miss the Most”. A few weeks ago, I got to go to San Francisco for a conference. I didn’t have the time to revisit and do all the things I wanted to do, so don’t consider this post a […]

A few nights ago, I had the pleasure of attending a Portland Food Bloggers’ Happy Hour at Aviary, one of my favorite restaurants in town. In addition to spending the evening with local food bloggers and some of my favorite people from Little Green Pickle (the awesome PR firm that hosted the event), we were […]

Us Portlanders have a lot of weird quirks, and one of the stranger ones that I’m aware of is what I like to call “quadrant pride”. Portland is divided into five (yep, five, you read that right) quadrants: North, Northeast (NE) and Southeast (SE), and Northwest (NW) and Southwest (SW).  The Willamette River runs through the […]

This weekend, I had some friends of mine in San Francisco come up for the 4th of July weekend. They’d rented a beautiful mansion in Ladd’s Addition (one of Portland’s prettiest neighborhoods) that came complete with a beautiful, huge porch (with a hot tub!!!) and a grill. Naturally, that meant only one thing: 4th of […]

This past weekend, Erlend and I decided to head to Sauvie Island to meet up with a few of our friends. Sauvie Island is about 10 miles from downtown/NW Portland and is one of the largest river islands in the country. In the summer, Sauvie Island’s long shoreline turns into an escape for city-dwellers looking […]