A Place Like This

Tag: Oregon

  • The Nines

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Have you ever stayed in a hotel in your hometown? I never had, until girlfriend Susie suggested a new hotel built in the old department store that I use to work in.  The old Meier & Frank building now houses the "nines", an incredibly beautiful hotel with everything and anything one could want.  I met…

  • Powell’s

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    Valarie Budayr
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    I think it's probably very well known that I'm a bibliophile or book addict affection ado. …in several languages, no less. So how many trips to Powell's does one take on their Portland vacation ? Daily….as in twice daily. Can't get to Powell's?……what a shame.        

  • Nadaka

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Right behind our house, the house that I grew up in, was a wonderful campfire girls day camp called Camp Nadaka.         I have so many wonderful memories of this place. What a great suprise it was to see it still there, undeveloped, and now open to the public. It was as if I…

  • Sand In the City

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    Valarie Budayr
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    ~ Greetings Everyone!~ I'll be blogging for the next couple of weeks from my beautiful hometown of Portland Oregon. This time my best friend Susie is with me. It's her first trip to Portland and now I can show her all of the places she hears me endlessly ramble on about. 🙂 Lucky Her! There's…