Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area Weekend after Mother’s Day www.friendsofladdmarsh.org/bird-festival-2 The annual family-friendly Ladd Marsh Bird Festival celebrates birdwatching activities, the diversity of birds, and the excellent wildlife habitat at …
Living as a professional fighter off of your fight purse. Even though I still had some money saved – while living and training with professional fighter, Will “The Kill” …
African, Basque, German, Hawaiian, Irish, Japanese, Mexican, Native American, pioneer, and Scottish. At each village, attendees can sample and purchase traditional foods, study and purchase arts and crafts native …
Tigard Cook Park, 17005 SW 92nd Avenue Late June www.tigardballoon.org For a weekend each June, a blue summer sky brims with colorful hot-air balloons in morning’s limpid air, painting …
Portland Ventura Park, 460 SE 113th Avenue Midsummer www.slavicfestivalportland.org v Woodburn Legion Park, 1385 Park Avenue Early August www.woodburnfiestamexicana.com Oregon has a rich and vibrant Mexican cultural heritage, and …
Lane Events Center, 796 W 13th Avenue Early October www.clayfest.org Clay is an amazingly versatile medium, equally adaptable to purely functional creations and wildly imaginative works of art. Adept …
Overall, everyday living is considerably cheaper in Chiang Mai than in Phuket. Typical examples: Taxi from the airport to any gym in Phuket would cost you around 600 baht …
Sherwood Old Town Sherwood Late June www.sherwoodwinefestival.com In the heart of the Willamette Valley, which was one of the earliest settled areas in the Northwest at the onset of …
If you want Japanese jibirru—locally brewed beers—then go to Backashu Club Popeye, in Ryoguku, Tokyo (that’s Sumo Town). It’s the legendary original Tokyo beer bar. They opened in 1985 …
Geysir, Iceland From Canada, we head more than fifteen hundred miles away to Iceland, breaking up our journey back across the Atlantic, for the story of how one of …
