Pacific Northwest Things to see and do Travel Articles

McMenamins Theater-Pubs – Portland, Oregon, USA

Portland, Oregon Travel Guide McMenamins Theater-Pubs When you need a time-out from sight-seeing, your money is low and you just want to kick back and relax, head for the nearest McMenamins. Brothers Mike and Brian McMenamin, to whom Portlanders pay homage with every toast of McMenamins’ locally brewed ales, have combined two popular pastimes: beer [...]

Holiday Market – Eugene, Oregon, USA

December 2002 Update Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Holiday Market Shoppers and holiday cheer junkies are on their mark as December arrives and Eugene’s cup of spirit begins to overflow, letting loose a multitude of events. Possibly the most anticipated by locals is the Holiday Market, an indoor holiday-themed craft smorgasbord that is the winter counterpart [...]

Portland Pub Crawl – Portland, Oregon, USA

Portland, Oregon Travel Guide Portland Pub Crawl I never realized how difficult it was to do a pub crawl until last weekend. You’d think the most difficult part of the night would be downing all the beer and cocktails, but you’d be wrong. The hardest part was tearing ourselves away from the bars we had [...]

Excursions – Portland, Oregon, USA

Excursions – Portland, Oregon Travel Guide Portland is a great city, but sometimes you have to get a break from urban life. If you tend to get a little concrete-crazy Portland is still the right place for you: besides already being an amazingly green city for its size, Portland is near vineyards, valleys, mountains and [...]

Museum of Natural History

Bars – Where to Drink – Portland, Oregon, USA

Bars – Where to Drink – Portland, Oregon Travel Guide A pub crawl down Burnside Street will take you from one side of the Willamette River to the other while hitting many of Portland’s finest bars and dance clubs along the way. Below I have listed some popular pit stops both on and off this [...]

Picnic Spots – Eugene, Oregon, USA

Picnic Spots Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Clouds lazily float across a deep blue sky. They are in no rush to get anywhere, and neither are you. A soft breeze skips through the grass, bending each blade consecutively like sports fans doing the wave. In the distance you hear a dog bark, a child’s shriek of [...]

October 2002 Update – Portland, Oregon, USA

Portland, Oregon Travel Guide – October 2002 Update By Jen West Almost overnight the temperature has dropped, the clouds have rolled in and rain has doused the city. T-shirts get traded in for turtlenecks and sandals are swapped for boots. Pumpkin patches and haunted houses pop up at random around Portland in preparation for Halloween. [...]

Welcome Back Broadway – Eugene, Oregon, USA

October 2002 Update Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide October, a month that is usually characterized by the approach of dark foreboding clouds and the gradual appearance of umbrellas, was ushered into Eugene with spirit and warmth this year. Eugenians welcomed another wet winter with the grand reopening of Broadway Street, a main thoroughfare in the downtown [...]

Cultural Centers & Resources – Portland, Oregon, USA

Cultural Centers & Resources – Portland, Oregon Travel Guide Here’s a list of websites for other cultural centers and resources in Portland: Visit the Center for Native American Art in the Portland Art Museum www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m206.htm Check out Portland’s beautiful Japanese Garden www.japanesegarden.com And the Classical Chinese Garden www.portlandchinesegarden.org The World Forestry and Cultural Center www.worldforestry.org/museum.html [...]