Portland 80, Pacific 66

.... Portland is on a riverbank, Portland St. is downtown. Portland St. looks like Cisco does in Silicon Valley — occupying every third building, with its stamp on each. I knew I wouldn't find the Stott Center until ... the size of the Chiles Center at U. Portland. U. Portland is on the bank of the Willamette River, occupying enough land so that if you park on the wrong end of campus, good luck finding ...

every time I see my father I learn more ways to fake knowledge regaring wine

Dear Willamette Valley, thank you for making the three hour drive home with my parents so much more...palatable. not to mention oaky, fruity, heady, full bodied and with such nice structure.

...Columbia River Gorge, because we had never been there, everything in the city was closed, and Sarah's dad didn't seem to want to do the whole Willamette Valley winery thing. Well, all of the fog and mist and drizzle made the mountains pretty creepy and cool (although the views from up top over the river were ...

wine-tasting weekend

This past weekend was the annual outing to the Willamette Valley Wine Country with my parents. We had a great time. We headed out after school on Friday and got to Portland just about 9pm. We all fell in to bed and went to sleep. Saturday morning, after a very busy breakfast at the Embassy Suites (that's where we stayed this time), we went...

Spectacular Willamette Valley Pinot

... (and loved) a couple of Willamette Valley pinots, we had never ... confident in ordering an unknown Willamette Valley wine at a restaurant ... room really reminds me of Valley of the Moon in Sonoma. ... their grapes from Walla Walla Valley, Washington. They had a table ... pretty much "the birthplace" of Willamette Valley pinot. Again, the pinot ... buy 2 MORE bottles of Willamette Valley pinot: one from Amity ...

Cell Phone Pic Spam

...chemical persuausion, all wine with chemistry related labels amuse Methyl. No, she didn't buy any cause she's too cheap. She got the 1/2 price Willamette Valley ice wine instead (still to be opened). And lastly we come to an example of Methyl Quality Spelling, and Methyl Level Identification of the Obvious. No, ...

[cancer] The price of a single banana

... elucidations of this issue. We wound up reading our books in a nice lobby by the upper terminal of the funicular, with a spectacular view of the Willamette Valley. Eventually we return to Nuclear Medicine, where things proceed more or less as planned. I drink contrast dye, which makes me queasy. I get shot up...

A trip along the road less traveled

Mid-Willamette Valley as seen from the old Rock Hill School Last week I found myself facing the prospect of making a trip up the I-5 to a town about an hour north of here. Given that this is Oregon, and not heavily populated, this main north-south artery has only two lanes going in each direction, meaning that you're constantly having to pass strings of semi-trailers. I find...

James & Whitney's big road trip 2009 (part I)

...the Tracy costco on one tank (which is good because there are none in between). So we stopped in Burbank and topped off, and popped over the Tehachapi mountains and down past Grapevine and into the Central Valley. Sometimes we listened to music, sometimes to podcasts, and sometimes to the road, stopping for lunch at Carl's Jr at the Kettleman City exit. My tiny handrawn map of how to get to the ...

Back from Oregon

... Portland with Mr. Z; going to Powell's; drinking beer at an outdoor table on Hawthorne and people-watching. We stopped at Amie Annie winery in the Willamette Valley on the way to the coast. They were having a wine club event, but we kind of crashed it and ended up buying a couple of bottles of ...