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Chem, I had the same. Two new messages indicated that were not actually there.
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Yesterday and today I have been getting logged out occasionally. Just wanted to let you know!
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Yep! I grew up in Oregon, kind of around Detroit. 🙂
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Ah Chiloquin. I remember playing high school sports with Chiloquin! 🙂 The world really is a small place.
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Crater Lake is gorgeous! 🙂 There are some nice things around Salem. The Oregon Garden is in Silverton, which is a pretty drive. And there is wine country around Salem and Silverton as well. Are you headed through Bend on the trip from Salem to Crater Lake? Or Eugene?
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ugh, links are weird.
http://www.portlandbeer.org/breweries/
http://www.portland-beerfest.com/
maybe those will work?
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O yeah, also wanted to mention Saphyre, if your husband is into beer but you aren't there during the Brewers Fest, there are a ton of breweries to hit up: Deschutes, Widmer & Bridgeport, to name some of the larger ones, but there are many many smaller breweries throughout the city. http://www.portlandbeer.org/breweries/ I think that site even has a map to them all.
And I just looked it up because I thought it was in June, but the Portland International Beer Fest is July 19-21st in the Pearl District. http://www.portland-beerfest.com/
And if you are looking to pole, I agree with AerialGypsy, hit up Brassy Butterfly! I used to train there with Chalese!
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Are you thinking Ground Kontrol? I know that is a bar/arcade, but I haven't been to it.
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I can't help it, I like to promote Portland at every chance I get. 🙂 I only left Portland for Hawaii, or I would still be there today, I am sure. I hope you have a lot of fun on the trip!
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Kennedy School is fun. It's an old Portland Public Schools elementary school building that was bought by McMenamins Brewery and transformed into a hotel/restaurant/movie theater/brewery. It's in northeast Portland, so not close to downtown, but its fun to eat/drink there even if you don't stay there. McMenamins actually buys up lots of historic properties so most of their restaurants/pubs are pretty cool.
If you like hiking/outdoors, Forest Park is one of the largest urban forest lands and it's pretty accessible from downtown.
If you are a book person, hit up Powells City of Books. Its a huge book store that takes up an entire city block in downtown. I love Powells.
Also, not sure what you think about hard alcohols, but I have heard that Distillery Row is fun. You can do tastings and tours from 6 different craft distilleries in the lower eastside industrial district. Also not sure when in July you are going, but a visit to Portland wouldn't be complete without microbrews (especially if you are into beer) and the Oregon Brewers Festival is July 24-28 in the downtown waterfront park.
The Lan Su Chinese garden in Chinatown is pretty nice, but I love the Portland Japanese Garden up in the west hills. The International Rose Test Garden is up there as well, but by July, it's kind of starting to get past peak rose season. Its absolutely stunning in May/June, and the views from up there are good year round, weather permitting :).
I love Portland! It's such a cool city. Hopefully at least something here sounds like fun.
http://www.mcmenamins.com/KennedySchool
​http://www.forestparkconservancy.org/forest-park/
http://www.powells.com/locations/powells-city-of-books/
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Yes we should! Currently, I am traveling, and I travel almost all the time. But hopefully that will soon slow and at some point this summer, I will be more settled. 🙂
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I want to check that studio out again, the last time I went there, they were in a different space, and their new space looks really nice. From Silverdale, I think its only a 20 min drive. 🙂 Even though there are only a couple of options on the peninsula, still a few more than where I moved from!
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O boy! We are getting a larger Seattle area contingent on here! 🙂 I moved to Silverdale from Hawaii last year, and so excited to see more and more polers in the area!
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It is so cool to see her back! Tara was one of the first polers that I watched on youtube, and I loved her graceful style. Like so many others, it was amazing to find out that she was self-taught. So inspirational! 🙂
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Roughly Two years ago I saw Sarah Jade and Alethea playing around with a very similar move in an NYC workshop. The hold/POC are exactly the same, her variation appears different only in the off arm and leg from what I can see.