If you ever saw the comedy series Portlandia, which ran from 2011 to 2018, you know this city of 653,000 (metro area 2.1 million) is bike-friendly and full of food carts/trucks, indie bookstores, farm-to-table restaurants, an embarrassing number
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Some people are traipsing through lovely landscapes as others explore history from days of North America's earliest tribal peoples to the present. Avid birders use binoculars to spot colorful feathered friends in flight while canoers and kaya
Read more…Spring is here, and summer's already around the corner! If you’re a flower gardener - and the National Gardening Association estimates that members of over a third of U.S. households are - you already may have begun to till soil and plant seeds.
Boasting inspiring national parks, gorgeous lush green valleys, plenty of adventure parks, thrilling adventure sports, and stunning beaches - the United States is the perfect place for you to head to for a refreshing vacation in 2020! And it off
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Who doesn't like a lighthouse? Artistic sentinels of the past and present that conjure up thoughts of tumultuous seas and shipwrecks along craggy coasts. For some, a lighthouse may bring visions of a peaceful life with the siren call of gulls and f
The Overleaf Lodge rests on the edge of the Pacific Ocean; so close that you can easily hear the waves thumping the rocky shoreline. The Overleaf seems large for its small-town surroundings. However, it has the advantage of a location that is situat
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Downtown Eugene, Oregon is decidedly more laid back and outdoorsy than much larger and more renowned Portland to the north. The University of Oregon's extensive in-town footprint and streets packed with local non-chain shopping make it a pedestrian
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Carrie Wynkoop loves discovering and sharing great Oregon wine. But when she began her explorations over 20 years ago, she joined one wine club after another but was unable to find any exclusively focusing on Oregon, even though the state is a top
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The "foodie" revolution shows no signs of slowing down, and the dining scene in one of the foremost cities that helped ignite it is still going strong, as well. From creative New American (especially drawing upon the traditions and bounty of the grea
Imagine it, if you can - in the mid 19th century, more than 300,000 men, women, and children making a 2,200-mile trek through open country from Missouri to what's now Willamette Valley and beyond in wagons and on foot. Here, five miles east of Baker
A fellow Tripatini member is wondering what she should not miss on a road trip up the Oregon coast. To help, please respond not here but at this link to our Ask A Travel Pro forum.
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April 29-30, 2012
Fort Worden State Park Conference Center
Port Townsend, Washington
- Visitor bureaus and destination marketing organizations from around the Pacific Northwest
- Featured speakers: published writers, travel & tourism experts and pane
Read more…Travel & Words Spring '11 conference offers opportunities to connect learn and write about sustainable, green and responsible travel and tourism for an early registration fee of $99.
Travel & Words Spring ‘11, recommended by Writer's Digest as a
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Sustainable + Green + Responsible Travel and Tourism theme drives
speaker topics throughout the two-day event.
February 16, 2011 (Seattle) - Travel & Words, the highly regarded Pacific Northwest conference that connects travel writers with dest
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Conference connects travel writers with tourism organizations, publishers and sustainability experts to explore new freelance market opportunities.
February 5, 2011 (Portland) - Travel & Words, the premier travel writers' event in the Pacific North
If you haven't stayed in McMinnville, Oregon you don't know what a good thing you're missing. Great wine, great gourmet food and super-fun shopping. Definitely not just a day trip; stay at least two days-there are over 200 wineries in this county! Ea
Read more…Hello Group Below is a recent article that I wrote about Portland, Oregon that is published on Tripatini. http://blog.tripatini.com/2009/10/26/falling-into-the-great-outdoors-in-portland-oregon. Regards, Susan Frost
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