Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and you know what she wants … and deserves! Flowers Chocolate Your time But you don’t have to give the “ordinary” thing, like a vase of cut (withering) flowers, a cellophane-wrapped box of brown sugar bombs, or breakfast at the pancake house with hundreds of strangers. Give her something extraordinary, [...]
We know you’ve seen them, and you probably have even tried a few. But have you ever wanted to really explore Portland’s food carts to see which ones are REALLY the best? Well, now you can. With Portland Walking Tours’ Flavor Street tour, debuting today at 1 PM, you can taste for yourself which of [...]
A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth at least a blog entry… especially when it perfectly tells the story of our beautiful city. Thanks to our friends at Travel Portland and Uncage The Soul Productions for sharing this. .
What’s a great way to celebrate the 43rd annual Earth Day this Sunday, April 22? Walk! The benefits of walking have been well-documented: It’s good exercise that benefits your heart, circulation, respiratory system and muscle tone; It gets you around without polluting the environment; It allows you to really get to know the world around [...]
Superstitious? Thinking that Friday the thirteenth might be a good day to stay inside? We disagree. We think it’s a lucky day… if you put it all in perspective, and confront the Unlucky on its own terms. If the number 13 represents the dark, mysterious, and unlucky, then maybe the thing to do is seek [...]
Portland Walking Tours was recently featured on MERGE!, a TV magazine-format show hosted by the irrepressible Kelsey Beer (perfect name for someone doing features on Portland, isn’t it?) airing on KPDX-TV. In case you missed it, here’s the link. Enjoy!
In Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular trilogy and new motion picture, “Districts” send teenagers into a battle to the death without food, defense against the elements or really any idea of what they’re up against. And they get very hungry, very fast. Great story, but we prefer adventures where we end up well-fed by a variety [...]
Good news for anthomaniacs! Anthomania, n. An`tho*ma”ni*a\, n. [Gr. 'a`nqos flower + mani`a madness.] A extravagant fondness for flowers. – Dictionary.com We have it on good authority that this year there will be roses. OK, so this “good authority” is the Aunt Zelda of one of our bud-loving guides. But we’ve learned over the years [...]
The Food Cart frenzy continues! To help you be among the few “in the know” elite food cart connoisseurs, we’ve assembled these juicy tidbits to mull over while you’re munching: Multnomah County recognizes three types of carts: Fixed, Mobile and Drive-Thru. Over 700 mobile food units (all three types) are licensed in the Portland area. [...]
Portland is not usually described as a sports-crazy town. But this weekend we’re giving the lie to that characterization. Even though our beloved Trail Blazers are still on the road, we have lots of sporting events going on – to watch or to play in: 1. NCAA “March Madness” – Eight teams began play in [...]
