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Saturday, June 23, 2007

They love us

Tourists from Atlanta, that is.

Posted at 9:23 AM | Permalink

Comments (22)

A little over the top --I mean, a lane for skateboards?-- and overly focused on the fareless square core...but one still can't feel a touch of pride.

Last Saturday morning we were at an oyster festival for Dan & Louie's 100th anniversary...less than an hour later we were sipping wine at Domaine Drouhin overlooking an impossibly beautiful view. I know that drives those folks crazy who'd rather see the Dundee Hills loaded with houses rather than vines, but part of what the author missed is how close we Portlanders are to such treasures outside the City. I think it helps make Portland great.

Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 10:10 AM

The sewer bills certainly don't. We just got our quarterly shocker.

Posted by Jack Bog | June 23, 2007 10:18 AM

At least you can now pay by credit card on-line and get frequent flyer miles. Lots of frequent flyer miles.

(And don't forget to apply for your stormwater discount by June 30 if you're entitled to one!)

Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 10:54 AM

I'm penciling it out -- I think pay toilets are cheaper by the flush than our house now!

Posted by Jack Bog | June 23, 2007 11:03 AM

You're not at the point yet where you have a house full of teenagers...I would love pay toilets throughout. And pay showers. A fee to open the refrigerator door wouldn't be bad.

I know, the kids are gone soon enough. I've cycled through a few, and you start to miss 'em.

That's the great thing about government. It never goes away. And we write you every couple of months to remind you that we're there and we care. And we provide a return envelope for your convenience.

Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 11:33 AM

OFP ... 38 mile from PDX to downtown.?

Posted by Bark Munster | June 23, 2007 11:56 AM

I wondered about that 38-mile run myself, but figured the author simply rode the choo-choo out to Hillsboro and back.

Posted by Max | June 23, 2007 12:18 PM

38 mile from PDX to downtown

Maybe it was a creative cabbie?

Posted by Frank Dufay | June 23, 2007 12:31 PM

All I have to do is visit my hometown in Wisconsin during August or January to make me love PDX--the weather alone here closes the deal.

Posted by jimbo | June 23, 2007 1:51 PM

Sounds like a great place (except for the remote airport). Where is it?

Posted by Allan L. | June 23, 2007 2:36 PM

Born in Pdx in 1964, I miss the smell of
Henry Weinhard

Posted by todd | June 23, 2007 4:08 PM

Sheesh. Was that an article about Valhalla? The only things the author left out are the city drinking fountains that are filled with Pinot and the free magic unicorns that everyone gets when they move here.

Posted by jason | June 23, 2007 9:39 PM

What a stomach-turning read!

Posted by LC | June 23, 2007 10:08 PM

Dear Hotlanta,

It's a trick. The travel agent was bribed to write that fawning story.

Portland is rubes. They think the onions of Walla Walla (wherever that is) are better than Vidalia's, and they grow their own fuzzless peaches. Portlanders like sawdust, it's everywhere -- it's not called the Beaver State for nuthin'.

They can't even spell NASCAR.

Save your money. Go to Austin, Texas, where they speak your own down home language and at least the locals know why your laughing at them.

Stay home. Don't visit.

Posted by Tenskwatawa | June 23, 2007 11:43 PM

As the former great Governor McCall said- "Come visit us again and again. This is a state of excitement. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live."

So come, spend your money, than go back home!

Posted by expdx | June 24, 2007 12:11 AM

What Portland group hustles these stories?

Thanks
JK

Posted by jim karlock | June 24, 2007 3:13 AM

Where's the love? Not a single mention of the tram.

Posted by got logic? | June 24, 2007 9:08 AM

From the article:

"And don't miss the new aerial tram for a great view of the Willamette and the burgeoning South Waterfront District."

Posted by Sue Hagmeier | June 24, 2007 1:20 PM

gag.....now we'll get carloads of Hotlanta folksies coming to live here....stop it!

Posted by kathe w. | June 24, 2007 2:49 PM

Wow, Portland must be fantasy land. What tripe, the problem is that this IS the way the city looks to visitors. A fun place to visit but living ANYWHERE is typically a different kettle of fish. All that 'free' stuff has a price tag attached and all the folks who actually LIVE there pay the tab. Yeah, let's bring on more foolish articles like this one. You go Portland.

Posted by Native Portlander | June 24, 2007 7:39 PM

too late...this ATL family is moving to Portland in the fall.

I'm sure we will get a warm welcome.

Posted by scott | June 25, 2007 7:13 AM

too late...this ATL family is moving to Portland in the fall.

I'm sure we will get a warm welcome.

You will.

Don't listen to the nattering nabobs of negativism. They live in Beaverton, whose traffic would make anybody cranky.

But seriously...Portland has its pluses and minuses like anyplace. But it's a nice place to be. Welcome.

Posted by Frank Dufay | June 26, 2007 4:42 AM

In Vino Veritas

Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007

The Occasional Book

Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 29
At this date last year: 66
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269