I’ve been in Portland Oregon this week working with Native community radio stations from across the United States on an exciting capacity development project. \u00a0 While here I’ve been enjoying the city. \u00a0 Portland, Seattle and Vancouver really are sister cities. \u00a0 We share the same climate, the same eco-systems and concerns, the same look and feel. \u00a0 The histories of the three cities are intertwined by the people that have lived on this coast since the cities were founded. \u00a0 The Columbia is the furthest south outlet of Canadian freshwater on the west coast, so in many ways, what flows nearby here is tied to what happens in the Canadian Rockies. \u00a0 Out in the ocean, the migration of birds, salmon, whales and seals intimately connects these three cities too, even though Portland isn’t strictly a coastal town.<\/p>\n
I have been here only once before, on a road trip to California, and I never spent any real time in the city. \u00a0 On this trip, I was staying in a downtown hotel, and working a light schedule, so I had time to walk around and explore. \u00a0 Took in dinner one night at a lovely restaurant, Higgins<\/a>, which serves local, seasonal food in a west coast style. \u00a0 I also stumbled into the real world version of Powell’s Books<\/a> which is located in a funky little neighbourhood surrounded by the specialty bookshops that it spawned. \u00a0 It’s a very friendly book store for such a big place, and full of helpful and cheerful staff.<\/p>\n I’ve been travelling by public transit on this trip too. \u00a0 I almost took the train from Vancouver but was constrained by time. \u00a0 Otherwise I would have loved to have gone from Vancouver straight through to San Francisco by train. \u00a0 As it is the only train I will ride on this trip is the excellent MAX light rail in Portland which whisks you from the airport to downtown in a little over a half hour for $2.35.<\/p>\n On my way now to Sausalito to spend the weekend in some relaxed but important conversations around designing a global conference which will be held next year on Hawai’i. \u00a0 Looking forward to being in the Bay area, and at the same time, resolved to return to Portland again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been in Portland Oregon this week working with Native community radio stations from across the United States on an exciting capacity development project. \u00a0 While here I’ve been enjoying the city. \u00a0 Portland, Seattle and Vancouver really are sister cities. \u00a0 We share the same climate, the same eco-systems and concerns, the same look and feel. \u00a0 The histories of the three cities are intertwined by the people that have lived on this coast since the cities were founded. \u00a0 The Columbia is the furthest south outlet of Canadian freshwater on the west coast, so in many ways, what …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-xn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}