Dancergirl and I are off to Portland next week for the Western Regional Irish Dance Championships, the qualifying competition for Worlds and Nationals (she’s pre-qualified this year for Nationals because she’s in Open, but this is the event that qualified her last year).
We’ve decided we don’t want to do the usual flying routine, so we’re taking the Coast Starlight — a 27-hour train ride, but with sleeping accomodations. We think it’ll be an adventure — the Coast Starlight is a very cool Amtrak route with lots of photo opps along the way. Depending on what kind of connections we can make, we’re going to try to live blog the trip with photos, video and blog entries.
Our time in Portland will be somewhat limited, but we’ll have some spare time, so I’m looking for any recommendations you all have for restaurants, places to go, things to see. We’re staying at the Doubletree (Lloyd Center).
All suggestions are welcome.
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