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Cascadia Trip Inventory: Accumulation from our Trip to Portland and Seattle

Inspired by the inventories Liz posts on Flickr, Karen and I decided to take a photo of everything we accumulated on our trip to Portland and then Seattle. We set physical we took from America on the floor and then stood on a chair to take the photo with our DSLR. Below is the photo plus a list of the items with some links, taken from the annotations Karen and I added to the Flickr photo.

Cascadia Trip Accumulation
  • Overland Equipment Auburn bag.
  • The Alexander Technique Manual by Richard Brennan
  • Two maps of Powell's City of Books in Portland.
  • Boost Your Brain Power Week by Week: 52 Techniques to Make You Smarter by Bill Lucas
  • U.S. stamps for mailing postcards.
  • Various TriMet maps, passes and info. From right to left: three maps, a comic in Spanish, and a bike rider's guide. The five passes are: one bus transfer, two weekly passes, and two "honored citizens" passes that I rescued from the trash.
  • Seattle Sound Transit guide.
  • Two free Portland bridges bookmarks. That beat paying $19 for the poster of the same bridges.
  • Inclusive City book flyer.
  • 4 Amtrak ticket stubs for the train trips we took from Portland to Seattle, then from Seattle to Vancouver.
  • Artist postcard from gallery in the Pearl District.
  • Pumpkin Butter with Port, from the "Made in Oregon" store.
  • Spiced hazelnuts with cinnamon and pepper. I talked to the man who makes them at the People's Co-op Farmer's Market. It was chilly. (The weather at the market, not the man!)
  • Dreaming Escape, a book of poems translated from Albanian.
  • Greeting cards from Positively Green
  • Seattle Art Museum tickets to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. We stumbled on it on our way to a concert, donated in the wrong box, plead our case, and got in as the result of the donation.
  • Our little big purchase: the Flip MinoHD, with a custom design that I commissioned from @idleglory (flickr: rocketcandy).
  • 2 rolls of film from the Fisheye camera, ISO 400 and ISO 200.
  • Notebooks and a Jane Austen address book, also from Powell's.
  • Apple Cider, obtained from the Farmer's Market.
  • Bridges of Portland fridge magnet.
  • Art gallery opening card from Moshi Moshi.
  • The poster for Duncan Sheik's 2009 winter tour for Whisper House and Spring Awakening. We attended his shows in Portland and Seattle.
  • Ticket stub from the Portland Duncan Sheik show.
  • Artist postcard from gallery in the Pearl District.
  • Skirt purchased from The Future Inc., which closed this past Saturday.
  • An "Oregon Wilderness" postcard, the outlier of the 8 we sent in total to our American and Canadian friends on this trip.
  • Apple Cinnamon Tea from Pike Place Public Market in Seattle. The entire kitchen smells like this tea now.

Video of the MAX Arriving Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center

On my trip to Portland last week, while my girlfriend went to the People's Farmer's Market, I took a jaunt over to the airport from downtown. To travel from the airport from downtown, I had to get a zone upgrade, because the 7-day pass we bought (see below) afforded us 2 zones. (We mostly traveled from Zone 2 through Zone 1 to the Fareless Square.) The fine folks at the TriMet information office at Pioneer Courthouse Square advised me that to get the zone upgrade, I would have to step on a bus, get an upgrade, and immediately disembark and hop on the train. I wasn't interested in risking getting caught by a fare inspector, so I made the trip to Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue TC, hopped off the train, and got a zone upgrade from the #19 bus driver there.

On the trip I took quite a bit of HD video using the Flip Mino HD camera we bought. Following is a Hillsboro-bound MAX train arriving at Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center (which I will refer to in conversation as "Gateway" after the SkyTrain station here in Greater Vancouver).

Having a 7-day pass may not have been worth it from a purely financial perspective: as mentioned, we spent 5 days there in total and the pass did not apply to the Aerial Tram up to OHSU. (We would have appreciated a ticket stub as a memento of that trip. I sent a note to TriMet directly with that suggestion.) We did very much appreciate the convenience of the two-zone fare and not only the convenience of not having to fish for change, but being able to select which consecutive 7 days we could use the pass. In <a href=http://www.ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes/Passes/Weekly_pass.jsp">Toronto, you can't select which days. At least they have one, though: we'd love to be able to have weekly passes in Vancouver!

Mundane HD Portland MAX Video

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Submitted by roland on Tue 2009-03-03 12:42 #

go max go!

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Tue 2009-03-03 18:09 #

I posted a little bit of info about the surroundings and that day's trip at PDXphiles.

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Cascadia Trip Accumulation

Stuff we acquired on our trip to Portland, Oregon, with a stop in Seattle, Washington.

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Submitted by counti8 on Sun 2009-03-01 19:54 #

If we were to do a Wordle of our notes, I think it would show the essential highlights of our trip: music, Powell's, food, a bit of planner-ness, some art, and transit.

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Submitted by sarahfelicity on Sun 2009-03-01 22:23 #

You two are too cute. :)

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Submitted by rocketcandy on Sun 2009-03-01 22:27 #

SO MUCH STUFF!!! eeeeeeee ^O^..

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Submitted by Uncleweed on Mon 2009-03-02 08:44 #

Static montage

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Submitted by roland on Mon 2009-03-02 12:41 #

go static montage go!

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Submitted by Busologist on Fri 2009-03-06 13:50 #

Now you can open up your own visitor info centre & souvenir shop! ;-)

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sillygwailo added a note: Overland Equipment Auburn bag.

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sillygwailo added a note: The Alexander Technique by Richard Brennan

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sillygwailo added a note: Two maps of Powell's City of Books in Portland.

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sillygwailo added a note: Boost Your Brain Power

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sillygwailo added a note: U.S. stamps for mailing postcards.

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sillygwailo added a note: Various TriMet maps, passes and info. From right to left: three maps, a comic in Spanish, and a bike rider's guide. The five passes are: one bus transfer, two weekly passes, and two "honored citizens" passes Richard rescued from the trash.

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sillygwailo added a note: Seattle SoundTransit transit guide.

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sillygwailo added a note: Two free Portland bridges bookmarks. That beat paying $19 for the poster of the same bridges.

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sillygwailo added a note: 4 Amtrak ticket stubs for the train trips we took from Portland to Seattle, then from Seattle to Vancouver.

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counti8 added a note: Artist postcard from gallery in the Pearl District.

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counti8 added a note: Pumpkin Butter with Port, from the "Made in Oregon" store.

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counti8 added a note: Spiced hazelnuts with cinnamon and pepper. I talked to the man who makes them at the People's Co-op Farmer's Market. It was chilly. (The weather at the market, not the man!)

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counti8 added a note: "Dreaming Escape", a book of poems translated from Albanian.

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counti8 added a note: Greeting cards from Positively Green

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sillygwailo added a note: Seattle Art Museum tickets to Life, LIberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. We stumbled on it on our way to a concert, donated in the wrong box, plead our case, and got in as the result of the donation.

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counti8 added a note: Our little big purchase: the Flip MinoHD, with a custom design that I commissioned from @idleglory (flickr: rocketcandy).

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counti8 added a note: 2 rolls of film from the Fisheye camera, ISO 400 and ISO 200.

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counti8 added a note: Notebooks and a Jane Austen address book, also from Powell's.

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counti8 added a note: Apple Cider, obtained from the Farmer's Market.

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sillygwailo added a note: Bridges of Portland fridge magnet.

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counti8 added a note: Art gallery opening card from Moshi Moshi.

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counti8 added a note: The poster for Duncan Sheik's 2009 winter tour for Whisper House and Spring Awakening. We attended his shows in Portland and Seattle.

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counti8 added a note: Ticket stub from the Portland show (see poster note below).

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counti8 added a note: Artist postcard from gallery in the Pearl District.

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counti8 added a note: Skirt purchased from The Future Inc., which closed this past Saturday.

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counti8 added a note: An "Oregon Wilderness" postcard, the outlier of the 8 we sent in total to our American and Canadian friends on this trip.

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counti8 added a note: Apple Cinnamon Tea from Pike Place Public Market in Seattle. The entire kitchen smells like this tea now.

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