Portland, Oregon
I've spent the weekend in Portland, Oregon, helping a friend celebrate receiving her Ph.D. in regional planning at Portland State University. There has been a bunch of ten of us, so I've had a quick refresher on how decisions get made in groups ...
Not too well when all ten were involved and no one felt comfortable taking the lead. And that was over and above the difficulty arising from different tastes in pastimes. Happily, when I was with a smaller group of four, with everybody interested in actually doing, rather than in going back and forth over what to do, the process went much faster.
As for Portland itself, judging from encounters with people over a long weekend, it's full of helpful, friendly people; it has good public transportation; and it is experiencing a good deal of restoration of various intown neighborhoods. If you'd like more information on the city, you can go to the municipal website, www.portlandonline,com.
Labels: Travel
posted by Karen Nelson @ 8:55 PM
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