Blogs from Portland, Oregon, United States, North America - page 11

Lets continue shall we !! lets see, remember Na the hotel's transport driver ?? We gotten to know him a little bit more as days goes by. Turns out he's been coaching a Rugby team of his own, and he invited us to come and watch his team play and we did. O..goodness what a game it was, they kicked, they wrestled, and they throw the ball as well as their team. For a first timer spectator, we're not sure how they scored or the rules of the game, so we cheered when others cheered and yelp when something went wrong. Anyway, on one of the junior league we noticed some hostility going on and the result of that conflict was, the team member who gotten into fight had to seat by the goal for a ... read more

Its been very fortunate for us to have the time and savings to take vacations, and yes very grateful we are able to travel and love it. This latest trip to Rarotongga was very different for some reason. Maybe because many events was going on in my life, but not to go into details about me, lets start with the journey shall we !! We flew from PDX to LAX late July of 2009, then 9 hours of airtime to Rarotongga via Air New Zealand. Not a bad seat nor food for economy, or so we thought. It was also a smooth flight to our surprise. Rarotongga is the capital of The Cook Island, which nestle in the Polynesian triangle and consists of 15 tiny islands, you can barely see it on the world map. The ... read more

well, this would be my first blog ever and i'm glad it's free hehehh. bare with me since English is my second language so, some of what i wrote may not make sense. don't have much to say at this time. now that i'm back to school traveling can be a bit of a challenge, but i'll soon share photos and story from my past travels. here i've posted some of my travel photos as a start. hope you all a good day, xo.... read more

Portland had quite a bit to offer in terms of experience. We’ll get to that. First of all, I embarked on my first greyhound bus in Seattle. Journey time to Portland was four hours. I grabbed my first burrito on the way too, which was from a gas station. It wasn’t that great. Maybe I should go to Taco Bell next time. Once I got to my hostel in Portland, which was a long walk from the bus station, I became acquainted with two of my roommates, Callum, an Aussie from Adelaide, and Jake from London. We got to know eachother very fast. Soon after, another two roommates came in; Judy from Taiwan and Aki from Japan. With Callum and Jake, I soon after headed out with a new local friend of theirs, literally just met. ... read more

We left Portland on Saturday, after three and a bit good days of wandering about, drinking coffee and espressos (actually macchiatos), testing the local beer, shopping, visiting galleries and, of course, eating. The people of Portland are, for the most part, incredibly friendly and helpful. In my experience, not the norm for such a big city. Oh there are also the slightly ‘different’ folk who spend a lot of time talking to themselves and chat up others for no particular purpose other than to hear themselves talk, but those folk make up the total ambience of a big city. Somehow they seem to fit and are accepted. Many times, when we got on a train or streetcar, or were standing and waiting for the same, someone would start in with one of us. Les seemed to ... read more