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 | Sasha: Intern Extraordinaire Part II
2009-09-24, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | Remember those seemingly deep dreams where you show up somewhere without your clothes on? That's how my internship at the newspaper began. It was my first day, I was headed to a staff meeting, and I f... |
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 | Sasha: Intern Extraordinaire Part I
2009-09-12, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | Can a person have stellar work experience without earning income? I can't answer that question. But I can assure you that a person can have a shitload of work without earning any income. And incidenta... |
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 | Portlandian Drama
2009-09-03, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | There comes a moment in life when one experiences clarity (and realizes she could actually be in an episode of Jerry Springer). The prerequisites are:
1) Someone is (ready to punch out somebody else'... |
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 | Playing Host(ess)
2009-07-14, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | Thea, whom I still doubt is biologically related, flew into Portland last Saturday from the big city - the only one that really matters, New Yawk. Pray tell, how did she arrive? I told her to wear com... |
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 | A Sister's Note
2009-07-03, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | [NOTE: The following message has been taken from a received e-mail and does not reflect the opinions of Sauntering.]
You latest blog entry has scared me. I am concerned that I am going to stick ou... |
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 | Lofty Foundations
2009-06-29, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | When you move to a new place, basic things you once took for granted can be difficult to acquire. Where is the nearest video store? Where can I buy travel packs of Benefiber? And what, dear lord, must... |
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 | Northwestern Beginnings
2009-06-12, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | Greetings from Portland, Oregon!
Aside from being vitamin D deficient from the lack of sunlight, and black and blue from beginner biking woes, I can't really complain. Which makes it hard to write.... |
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 | Oregon City, OR and the end of the Oregon Trail
2009-06-05, Portland, United States. By: emorgan | | It rained quite a bit last night and we awoke to a drizzly morning. For the last several days our van has been starting sluggishly so our first stop today was at Sears for a new battery for... |
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 | Escape to Portland Part II
2009-03-12, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | If you had the ability to tailor a city to your needs, what would it look like? Sauntering down the streets of Portland, I could convince myself that I had imagined this place. For one, it's home to ... |
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 | Escapism, Part I
2009-02-23, Portland, United States. By: sauntering | | Considering how sharply I remember Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro and how readily I will discuss them, it is shocking that a year has passed by. Signs indicate it must be true; Portuguese falls off o... |
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 | San Fran-Portland
2008-07-24, Portland, United States. By: lauras | | So I have been on the road now for over a month and it has been treating me too kindly. Mendocino, a little town on the beach, was breathtaking. Me+feather made a crazy log cabin on the beach about 5 ... |
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 | Visiting my Brother
2008-05-31, Portland, United States. By: chadica | | Since San Francisco and Portland are so close together, we decided to fly up the coast to spend a few days with Scott [url]http://www.traveljournals.net/travelers/scottr128/[/url] (btw...you're welcom... |
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 | the summer is here
2008-05-13, Portland, United States. By: hillsdale | | as i am preparing for my tirp in the fall im also doing the usual stuff in my homw town portland oregon. as an oregonian i tend to be more environmentaly aware than most city goers. oregon is my favor... |
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 | It's finally here - the Start of sabbatical!
2008-05-02, Portland, United States. By: kevingindy | | Friday was my last day of work and as I walked out of the building it felt slightly surreal but at the same time it was a great feeling of sudden freedom. This is a great benefit! I had Peter take m... |
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 | Portland...And glad we did!
2007-08-08, Portland, United States. By: hheardjr | | For my wife and me, after two weekends of looking at each other in the same location, we start to get wanderlust. You know the ailment that affects those who love to travel, adventure and discover. We... |
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 | One of Kerouac's haunts
2007-09-19, Portland, United States. By: tjtunes | | Through my visits here in the winter of 2004, Portland has become one of my favourite places. It’s a slice of America I can handle and seems to have a relaxed beauty because of the wealth of history ... |
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 | The Giant Crane
2006-02-06, Portland, United States. By: mapleheavy | | "Jesus Christ, I'm bored." I muttered as I lay in bed on Saturday morning, listlessly flipping channels and leafing through back-issues of European Car and Hamburger Eyes. My weekends are always s... |
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 | Departure
2006-06-27, Portland, United States. By: tannerscot | | Well, I'm flying out in a few hours; Portland to Tokyo to Bangkok to Kathmandu 33 hours later (with an 11 hour lay-over in the Bangkok International Airport). Portland has been amazing: hot weather, g... |
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 | Hiking
2006-06-25, Portland, United States. By: tannerscot | | The hike was great (see photos) though a bit windy - which was better than the heat. Portland has been pretty warm the past few days, however I bet it doesn't really compare to Nepal. Time for bed - t... |
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| P-town escapades
2006-06-24, Portland, United States. By: tannerscot | | Everything went well in leaving La Grande, of course. Portland has been wonderful so far and I've been very fortunate to stay with my friend Adam and his family while I'm here. They've been very gener... |
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 | RPCV Presentation
2006-01-17, Portland, United States. By: osullivan | | Went and saw Erin Carey last Tuesday on the 10th of January at the Central Library, but this one was a lot better because there was only one person that talked and she talked only about her time there... |
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| Presntation a few weeks ago
2006-01-08, Portland, United States. By: osullivan | | Totally forgot to write an entry that I’d been meaning to a couple of weeks ago. In mid December we went and saw PC rep Rick Mann speak about his experience with a half dozen others at the Central Li... |
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| Late Night Thoughts
2005-12-02, Portland, United States. By: osullivan | | So…since Allison gets cold kind of easy, the other night it hit me that she could be super cold if we end in a freezing Peace Corps placement. I woke her up while we were lying in bed and asked her i... |
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| Intro Post/ PSU International Fair
2005-11-17, Portland, United States. By: osullivan | | So…since I’m so excited about Peace Corps, I’m going to start a journal for the information that I find so I can see what happened when. Allison doesn’t know about this yet, so it will be fun when sh... |
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 | I'm Back
2005-08-16, Portland, United States. By: cbtjoe | | Well, After a 14 hour flight, 2 sun rises in 1 day and a 7 hour layover in LAX and another 2 hour flight to PDX, I'm finally home. Barring this head cold, I should be back to work tomorrow.
All we... |
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 | End of the Road
2004-04-09, Portland, United States. By: jmjourney | | After a few weeks of searching and another round of
parasites, John and I have found a cutie little
apartment in Portland, Maine. The best part about it
is that it is less than a minute's walk from... |
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 | Portland Week 6
2002-08-24, Portland, United States. By: katandjen | | The Ero's came by to see us!!!! And it was off to the races! :) We visited the lighthouses and done some shopping with them as we attempted to show them this beautiful countryside. We finished up ... |
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| Portland Week 5
2002-08-17, Portland, United States. By: katandjen | | I worked my tail off!!! Oh, looking in the mirror, I can tell that it is still there! :) Then we took a little trip to Wells' Beach.. where I had a pleasant allergic reaction to... hmmm... who know... |
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| Portland Week 5
2002-08-17, Portland, United States. By: katandjen | | I worked my tail off!!! Oh, looking in the mirror, I can tell that it is still there! :) Then we took a little trip to Wells' Beach.. where I had a pleasant allergic reaction to... hmmm... who know... |
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