PDXphiles - Sound Transit http://pdxphiles.com/taxonomy/term/34/0 en-pdx Cascadia Trip Inventory: Accumulation from our Trip to Portland and Seattle http://pdxphiles.com/2009/03/04/inventory <!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Inspired by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketcandy/tags/inventory/">the inventories Liz posts on Flickr</a>, 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.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillygwailo/3320816159/" title="Cascadia Trip Accumulation by sillygwailo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3583/3320816159_dc2d3af8e7_b.jpg" width="600" alt="Cascadia Trip Accumulation" /></a></div> <ul> <li>Overland Equipment Auburn bag.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1885203381/sillygwailo-20"><i>The Alexander Technique Manual</i></a> by Richard Brennan</li> <li>Two maps of <a href="http://www.powells.com/">Powell's City of Books</a> in Portland.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844832643/sillygwailo-20"><i>Boost Your Brain Power Week by Week: 52 Techniques to Make You Smarter</i></a> by Bill Lucas</li> <li>U.S. stamps for mailing postcards.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Seattle <a href="http://www.soundtransit.org/">Sound Transit</a> guide.</li> <li>Two free Portland bridges bookmarks. That beat paying $19 for the poster of the same bridges.</li> <li><a href="http://www.inclusivecity.com/">Inclusive City</a> book flyer.</li> <li>4 Amtrak ticket stubs for the train trips we took from Portland to Seattle, then from Seattle to Vancouver.</li> <li>Artist postcard from gallery in the Pearl District.</li> <li>Pumpkin Butter with Port, from the "Made in Oregon" store.</li> <li>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!)</li> <li><i>Dreaming Escape</i>, a book of poems translated from Albanian.</li> <li>Greeting cards from Positively Green</li> <li><a href="http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/">Seattle Art Museum</a> 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.</li> <li>Our little big purchase: the Flip MinoHD, with a custom design that I commissioned from <a href="http://twitter.com/idleglory">@idleglory</a> (flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketcandy/">rocketcandy</a>).</li> <li>2 rolls of film from the Fisheye camera, ISO 400 and ISO 200.</li> <li>Notebooks and a Jane Austen address book, also from Powell's.</li> <li>Apple Cider, obtained from the Farmer's Market.</li> <li>Bridges of Portland fridge magnet.</li> <li>Art gallery opening card from <a href="http://www.moshi-moshi.com/">Moshi Moshi</a>.</li> <li>The poster for Duncan Sheik's 2009 winter tour for Whisper House and Spring Awakening. We attended his shows in Portland and Seattle.</li> <li>Ticket stub from the Portland Duncan Sheik show.</li> <li>Artist postcard from gallery in the Pearl District.</li> <li>Skirt purchased from The Future Inc., which closed this past Saturday.</li> <li>An "Oregon Wilderness" postcard, the outlier of the 8 we sent in total to our American and Canadian friends on this trip.</li> <li>Apple Cinnamon Tea from Pike Place Public Market in Seattle. The entire kitchen smells like this tea now.</li> </ul> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> http://pdxphiles.com/2009/03/04/inventory#comments books Duncan Sheik PDX Portland Powell's Books Seattle Sound Transit TriMet Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:44:00 +0000 Richard 26 at http://pdxphiles.com