More than trees in Portland, OR?

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Juice Box
are fireworks legal in OR? I know they arent in IL but we can just drive over to IN 5 min and get some

They're only legal during specific dates around July 4 and January 1 and only in designated areas. You can't go out to eastern Oregon in the middle of the summer during fire season and expect not to get cited and fined for lighting off fireworks. Also, they're heavily regulated. Fireworks that move more than six feet from their originally lit position (roman candles, etc) and fireworks that leave the ground (mortars, bottle rockets, etc) are illegal.

Pretty much all that's legal either squeals or smokes or some combination of the two. They suck.

Actually, my favorite firework that I always buy hoards of every year are called "Jack in the Box." You know what Ground Bloom Flowers are, right? Those little things that look like sticks of dynamite that, when you light, spin so fast that they make this little flower looking shape and bounce around the ground? The Jack in the Box has EIGHT of those, but they're all of a quarter inch long. You light it and it shoots showers of colored sparks in waves while popping out the miniature ground bloom flowers everywhere. You get a shower of sparks and these tiny balls of fire bouncing around the ground changing color. It's REALLY cool.

I like to line up 10 or so with wicks carefully aligned in the same direction so I can walk along fairly quickly with my lighter and light them all at relatively the same time. Then you get 80 of those little bastards jumping around everywhere within a 5-foot radius of the JitB that they came from.



...I'm easily amused.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Vic
I know you can probably still get the real thing sometimes at some reservations by asking the right person and flashing a wad of money, but IMO it's not worth it as WSP patrols the reservations during the 4th season quite heavily these days, and getting caught can mean jail time.

You're talking about getting in trouble for buying M-80's and getting jail time not black cats and bottle rockets, right?

 

[Vic]

Right. I don't think you can get jail time for just black cats and bottle rockets.

 

[chimmytime]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Juice Box
are fireworks legal in OR? I know they arent in IL but we can just drive over to IN 5 min and get some

They're only legal during specific dates around July 4 and January 1 and only in designated areas. You can't go out to eastern Oregon in the middle of the summer during fire season and expect not to get cited and fined for lighting off fireworks. Also, they're heavily regulated. Fireworks that move more than six feet from their originally lit position (roman candles, etc) and fireworks that leave the ground (mortars, bottle rockets, etc) are illegal.

Pretty much all that's legal either squeals or smokes or some combination of the two. They suck.

Actually, my favorite firework that I always buy hoards of every year are called "Jack in the Box." You know what Ground Bloom Flowers are, right? Those little things that look like sticks of dynamite that, when you light, spin so fast that they make this little flower looking shape and bounce around the ground? The Jack in the Box has EIGHT of those, but they're all of a quarter inch long. You light it and it shoots showers of colored sparks in waves while popping out the miniature ground bloom flowers everywhere. You get a shower of sparks and these tiny balls of fire bouncing around the ground changing color. It's REALLY cool.

I like to line up 10 or so with wicks carefully aligned in the same direction so I can walk along fairly quickly with my lighter and light them all at relatively the same time. Then you get 80 of those little bastards jumping around everywhere within a 5-foot radius of the JitB that they came from.



...I'm easily amused.

then you can drill a hole up the end of it (opposite of the wick) and let the fun really begin. I am in no way endorsing you doing this of course.

p.s. stand back.

 

[weirdichi]

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: weirdichi
Thien Hong on Sandy Blvd. You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid. I repeat: You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid

Hmmm....I dunno....I've managed to do so many, many times....

(Squid is very 'meh' to me)

My sister didn't like seafood at all until she tried this stuff. Now she loves it. Just give it a try, even if it does look like the tentacles are gonna tickle your throat on the way down.

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: weirdichi

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: weirdichi
Thien Hong on Sandy Blvd. You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid. I repeat: You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid

Hmmm....I dunno....I've managed to do so many, many times....

(Squid is very 'meh' to me)

My sister didn't like seafood at all until she tried this stuff. Now she loves it. Just give it a try, even if it does look like the tentacles are gonna tickle your throat on the way down.

What, no, I LOVE seafood. Mussels for teh win! And even Calamari is pretty tasty. Crab, lobster, etc = yum! Scallops = YUM!!

Still, squid is just....'meh'

There ARE some pretty sweet places to eat in Portland, though.

 

[weirdichi]

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: weirdichi

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: weirdichi
Thien Hong on Sandy Blvd. You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid. I repeat: You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid

Hmmm....I dunno....I've managed to do so many, many times....

(Squid is very 'meh' to me)

My sister didn't like seafood at all until she tried this stuff. Now she loves it. Just give it a try, even if it does look like the tentacles are gonna tickle your throat on the way down.

What, no, I LOVE seafood. Mussels for teh win! And even Calamari is pretty tasty. Crab, lobster, etc = yum! Scallops = YUM!!

Still, squid is just....'meh'

There ARE some pretty sweet places to eat in Portland, though.

Try these first and then you can say "meh". Yeah, I DO miss the food in the NW. Sushi here in the midwest just isn't the same as west coast.

 

[booger711]

Originally posted by: weirdichi

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: weirdichi

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: weirdichi
Thien Hong on Sandy Blvd. You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid. I repeat: You CANNOT leave Portland without trying their Pepper Salted Squid

Hmmm....I dunno....I've managed to do so many, many times....

(Squid is very 'meh' to me)

My sister didn't like seafood at all until she tried this stuff. Now she loves it. Just give it a try, even if it does look like the tentacles are gonna tickle your throat on the way down.

What, no, I LOVE seafood. Mussels for teh win! And even Calamari is pretty tasty. Crab, lobster, etc = yum! Scallops = YUM!!

Still, squid is just....'meh'

There ARE some pretty sweet places to eat in Portland, though.

Try these first and then you can say "meh". Yeah, I DO miss the food in the NW. Sushi here in the midwest just isn't the same as west coast.

Todai is pretty good.

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: weirdichi
Try these first and then you can say "meh". Yeah, I DO miss the food in the NW. Sushi here in the midwest just isn't the same as west coast.

Yes, there ARE some nice sushi places out here.

Even in Bend - Yoko's is great. :thumbsup:

 

[chimmytime]

So is the sushi as good as it was in Whistler?

 

[chimmytime]

Just got word that my friend has to work on monday so i might have to find my own way to the airport. Are there any interesting spots near the airport ?

 

[RossMAN]

Are there any interesting spots near the airport ?

Nope.

How are you getting to the airport?

Shuttle, taxi, limo, towncar, bus, MAX, etc.?

 

[chimmytime]

I haven't decided yet, my friend lives about 9 miles from the airport (yahoo maps). Does the bus system run to the airport?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: chimmytime
I haven't decided yet, my friend lives about 9 miles from the airport (yahoo maps). Does the bus system run to the airport?

http://www.trimet.org/go/cgi-bin/plantrip.cgi

MAX red line

 

[jpeyton]

Head down to the Saturday Market on Saturday or Sunday; it's a fun place to browse local merchants, shop, but most importantly they have some killer food. Pioneer Place (upscale mall) and NikeTown aren't too far from it, as well as a host of other places to shop. Fox Tower (on 7th and Taylor) is a great place to catch some non-mainstream cinema, but Pioneer Place has a theater too if you want to see something like WotW.

For scenery not too far from Portland, I would head into the Columbia Gorge; there are some notable stops along the way like Multnomah Falls, and some viewpoints where you can get a good view of the Willamette and the Gorge.

The Rose Garden (not the arena, but the actual garden) is a nice place to visit, along with the adjoining Washington Park (a great place to go on a light hike through the forest) and Japanese Gardens.

You might be the type who would be interested in visiting OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry), for the exhibits or just to see an OMNIMax movie.

There are also more than a handful of drags where you can just park your car and walk along the street; NW 26th is one, but I also like the SE side of Portland close to the river...SE Burnside, Belmont, Hawthorne, Division, Holgate, Powell, Woodstock...they're all nice closer to the river, but uninteresting as you travel farther east.

 

[chimmytime]

Thanks for all the advice guys. Portland was great, perfect place to get away from LA and to clear my head.

Pearl District was cool, checked out the blues festival a little bit, and downtown, ate dinner at Jake's Seafood, ate breakfast over in Hawthorne.

Can't say how sad it was to fly over the city of LA and see so much gray on the ground. Trees are nice.