Portland Travel Guide

We’d like to thank Google Places for being the local sponsor of Meet, Plan, Go! Portland. For more information on sponsored posts read here. If you’re a Portlander, you’ve probably heard of Google Places by now. We were lucky to be the launch city for Places (which was called Hotpot originally) and enjoy a series [...]

Original article can be found here: Using Google Places for Travel Recommendations

Portland Travel Guide

If you can’t get enough of mocking Portlanders, IFC just released their first look at the brand new season of Portlandia. Season Two is coming in January whether Portland likes it or not. Oh come on, you know you like it… Here’s IFC’s first look at Season 2: About Portlandia: The 6-part IFC Original short-based [...]

Original article can be found here: Portlandia Season 2

Portland Travel Guide

If you happen to find yourself on a Delta Airlines flight this month, you can enjoy free wifi from GoGo Inflight for the month of August. Delta Airlines has international flights from Portland to Amsterdam and Tokyo, and 29 other cities with Alaska Airlines. Use promo code DIETCOKEGOGO for Free Wifi ($12.95 value) on any [...]

Original article can be found here: GoGo Inflight Coupon: Free Wifi in August

Portland Travel Guide

There are many things to love about living in Portland – not including several months of mostly-dreary weather we don’t like to talk about. For those of us who love to travel, however, the fact that PDX doesn’t typically offer the same kind of super-discount flights to far-off destinations is sometimes a bummer. Sure, we [...]

Original article can be found here: Meet Plan Go Comes to Portland in October

Portland Travel Guide

I’m a fan of both cycling and Portland, so when I heard that a Portland-based company would be sponsoring a major pro cycling team, that was cause for celebration. Columbia Sportswear is to be the new main sponsor of the artist formerly known as the T-Mobile Team, more recently known as Team High Road. The [...]

Original article can be found here: Columbia Sportswear Sponsors Pro Cycling Team

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Today’s Oregonian newspaper says that Portland is #2 in the country in terms of blogging – that only Austin, TX outranks us in terms of the number of residents who have either read or contributed to a blog in the last month. In Portland, that means that 14% of us. Reporter Steve Woodward talked to [...]

Original article can be found here: Portland #2 in Nation for Blogging

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Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued a pollution advisory today due to the lack of air movement we’ve had in the Willamette Valley recently. The weather’s been beautiful, and the lack of wind means that the pretty autumn leaves have stayed a little longer on the trees, but it also means that the pollution [...]

Original article can be found here: Portland DEQ Air Pollition Warning

Portland Travel Guide

You know that creepy/cool feature Google introduced awhile ago, “Street View” – where you can see the streets of certain cities as if you were standing right there? Well, Portland has been added to the list of the cities which have Street View, so you can now get an on-the-ground feel for what this city [...]

Original article can be found here: Google Street View Comes to Portland

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I’m not an Oregon native myself, and I know lots of other transplants who now call Portland home. One of the common denominators I’ve found is that we all have a tendency to gush a bit when we talk about the reasons we love it here. When you choose to live in a place, that [...]

Original article can be found here: Portland’s #1 to Travel + Leisure (at least in some categories)

Portland Travel Guide

Northwest Airlines will soon be connecting Portland directly with Europe, which is excellent news for travelers. Portland had been one of those cities from which it took two (and sometimes three) stops to get anywhere in Europe, so when it became possible to reach European destinations with only one layover Portlanders did a little dance. [...]

Original article can be found here: Northwest Introduces Direct Flights from Portland to Amsterdam