Blogs from Oregon, United States, North America - page 126

Jono and I planned a while back to go to Portland to have (a white) Christmas and New years with my old uni pal, Jane, her husband Paul and their two kids - Attikus and Aislinn. We were planning to drive, but our car broke down at the start of December, so we bought ourselves bus and train tickets. We decided it would be nice to break the journey in Seattle, spending an afternoon and a night checking out the City a little more and then catching the train onwards the next day to Portland. It turned out to be fortuitous that we arranged it this way, even though it didn’t go to plan, ‘cause at least we did not miss our connecting train… We got to the Greyhound bus depot in Vancouver at about 7:45am, ... read more

Eugene is the home the University of Oregon which is noted for its Art programs. When you arrive, the first thing you might notice is a lot of community art everywhere. So, I took a day and just walked around downtown taking pictures of this or that - whatever caught my interest. The camera had a smudge on the lens - something I didn't notice until later. Sorry about that.... read more

On the road to Portland, we wanted Talula to get out and run around to expense some of her energy, so we stopped at a rest stop around Roseburg, Oregon. However, she was off the leash and decided to find a pile of crap to role in and eat. It was not fun to wash her with bottles of our water in the freezing cold. She was so bitter for the ride up to Portland. We arrived in Portland last night to a heavy downpour of rain. The foreshadowing couldn't have been more perfect. I woke up this morning to Jason telling me to get up because someone broke into the car. We parked in a gated parking garage in our friends apartment building, thinking it would be safe. Some tool smashed the rear window out ... read more

so, this is where all the hippies vanished..the town is full of delapidated VW's and white haired father christmas look alikes with shinney eyes...thanks giving was followed by a weekend of football and shopping...and now the lights for Christmas are decorating every one's front door.... LOvely brisk walks on the coast and in the mountains,Oregon is a health oasis for the super fit....dinner parties are booze free and spiritual..talks of Lemuria and healing mountains...the air is splendid....highly recommended moving on to Sedona tomorrow via Portland... read more

Still sick today, but didn't want to stay indoors, so I took the bus down to Portland's Science Center. You know... every city has one of these places where the kids can go on field trips. Here, it is called OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry). It was fun, though typical. They had the regular mathematical brain teaser puzzles, touch and play phisics exhibits, and a life sciences area. There was this one cool liquid they had though! A ferrous (sp?) liquid that reacts to magnetism like iron does. It moves around like mercury. The other exhibit that was impressive was a week-by-week showing of how humans grow within the womb... with REAL embryos and fetuses (they had died prematurely due to accidents and the like). Unfortunately I forgot to take some pictures, so if ... read more