Introducing Portland
Call it what you want – PDX, P-town, Stumptown, City of Roses, Bridge City or Beervana – Portland positively rocks. It’s a city with a vibrant downtown, pretty residential neighborhoods, ultragreen ambitions and zany characters. Here liberal idealists outnumber conservative stogies, Gortex jackets are acceptable in fine restaurants and everyone supports countless brewpubs, coffeehouses, knitting circles, lesbian potlucks and book clubs. Portland is an up-and-coming destination that has finally found itself, and an appealing, can’t-miss stop on your adventures in the Pacific Northwest.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
Tips & articles
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Top 10 reasons to visit Portland, Oregon
23 April 2012
Lonely Planet has produced this article for JetBlue. All editorial views are those of Lonely Planet alone and reflect our...
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Beer, coffee, wine and spirits of the Pacific Northwest
5 April 2011
Pacific Northwesterners like to say that surviving the long, gray, rainy winters hinges on two things: beer and coffee. But...
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If cities had faces, we’d make out with these places
7 February 2011
I’m no objectum sexual, a person with ‘pronounced emotional and often romantic desire towards particular inanimate objects’, like newlywed Erika...
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Mexico in September
by StarchildPDX 26 May 2012
Hello! My friends and I have the awesome opportunity to travel together (4 of us) for two weeks this September. We are flying out fro…
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Friend not answering calls, emails
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RE: oregon washington in august
by victalis 22 May 2012
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