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My Quest to Play Golf at Augusta National

Typically on Wednesdays I post my “Happy Hour of the Week”.  Due to all the new readers that have checked out the site over the last couple days I thought I would postpone my Happy Hour post until Thursday and write about something a little more interesting. – #27: Golf at Augusta National Golf Club They say nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.  Well I am going to test this theory.  Long regarded as one of the best and most exclusive golf courses in the world, Augusta National is a legend.  Whether you are a golfer or not, the chances are you have heard of this course, and a little tournament held there annually called The

Continue Reading > 5 Comments posted: June 10th, 2009

Welcome Readers from Live Uncomfortably!

I recently did a guest post for Derek over at Live Uncomfortably called Gorgeous Girls, Fast Boat, French Riviera. If you haven’t read it, you can find it here.  If you are new to my site thank you for checking it out!  It is still a work in progress, but I am really excited about the direction it is heading.  Take a look around, some of the posts I would recommend looking at first are: -Backpacking Through Europe – Without the Backpack -Create Your Own College Education -The List (My list of things I wish to accomplish during my lifetime) If you havent been to Live Uncomfortably, go RIGHT NOW.  Derek is a great writer and has some awesome stories to tell.  He

Continue Reading > No comments yet. posted: June 9th, 2009

10 Tips for Creating a Useful Bucket List

Every one has a list of things they want to do before they die.  Whether it is written down or not, there is something  in this world that you would like to do, but have yet to experience/accomplish.  Writing out a “bucket list” is the first step you can make towards accomplishing some of these goals.  However, this can be a harder list to write than you might expect.  If you use the following tips, you should be able to not only write a meaningful list, but actually accomplish it as well.  For reference, here is the beginning of my list.  Mine still has a ways to go. 1) Don’t try to write it all at once. This isn’t an

Continue Reading > 24 Comments posted: June 8th, 2009

The Ultimate Ride: African Rush – Days 4-6

This is the second in a series of guest posts from Steve Ogle’s journal during a 2008 trip to Zambia to film The Ultimate Ride: African Rush. If you havent read The Ultimate Ride: African Rush Days 1-3 you can find them here. – Day 4 A mostly good start to the day. The sun was back out, I still felt pretty good (no problems with the Malaria drugs so far, which have a reputation for being kind of harsh), and no serious gastro-intestinal issues. I have been pretty careful about things like tap water and foods that can be problematic. After a great afternoon yesterday we kind of took a hit today. We wanted to shoot a scene in

Continue Reading > No comments yet. posted: June 5th, 2009

Happy Hour of the Week: Lucy’s Table

There is a restaurant nestled in the heart of NW 21st street that seems to rarely go noticed by many people in the neighborhood.  Lucy’s Table is a restaurant that has been around for quite some time, yet it took me almost two years of living in the neighborhood to actually go in and check it out.  My only regret is not going in sooner. Social  Hour, as they call it there, consists of a wide variety of items that I think would be best categorized as “American gourmet”.  For $4 you can get their pomegranate glazed baby back ribs.  Now one might expect $4 ribs at a place like this to be paltry and severely undersized.  I was shocked

Continue Reading > No comments yet. posted: June 3rd, 2009

Backpacking Through Europe – Without the Backpack…

Every once in awhile something happens in your life that completely throws off everything you know to be true.  Before I left for Europe after my college graduation, I absolutely knew that I had to have 35 pounds worth of crap to make it across the European countryside (oh to be a first time backpacker).  Well a three weeks and four countries later, everything I thought I knew to be true ended up being completely, entirely, 100% wrong. What are the odds that on your first trip out of the country, your luggage is lost for the first time? Well apparently better than you might think, because on my 3 week long European trek, my pack never showed up. This

Continue Reading > 6 Comments posted: June 1st, 2009

May 2009 Recap

Wow, so my first month as a blogger has officially come to a close.  At the end of every month I am going to try and recap everything that I have discussed, as well as give you an idea of what to look for in the future. I have been surprised at how much I really do enjoy writing and working on this blog.  I have met a ton of great people through the process, and I continue to meet more every day.  Obviously this whole project is still a work in progress, as evidenced by my lack of a clear niche or direction, and some other aspects of the site that are still only partially completed.  However, I feel

Continue Reading > No comments yet. posted: May 31st, 2009

Quit your Job, Move to Hawaii Part 2 of 3

This is part two of three in a series of guest posts from Ryan Martin.  In this post he will discuss his first few days adjusting to island life. If you haven’t read part one, you can find it here. Flying fish, humpback whales, spinner dolphins, shipwrecks…this definitely ain’t (insert the state you currently reside in here) anymore! This is how I spent my first full day in Hawaii. I am quickly learning that on Maui, it is not what you know, but WHO you know. Fortunately for me, my roommate is a hotel concierge and one of the perks of the job is getting to do any activity on the island for free with one guest. Insert me, the

Continue Reading > 8 Comments posted: May 29th, 2009

Create Your Own College Education

 Bartleby: You could spend eighty thousand dollars or I could make eighty thousand dollars. Dad: So you’re saying you don’t want to go to college? Bartleby: No, I am saying it would be fiscally irresponsible for me to go to college. This is a quote from the movie Accepted, in which a high school graduate sets out to create his own college education.  Sparked by his inability to be accepted to a real school, he ends up starting his own.  He develops a place where students can learn about whatever it is they are passionate about, rather than getting a”traditional” education. I could write pages about how the current system for higher education is severely flawed, but I think most

Continue Reading > 9 Comments posted: May 28th, 2009

Happy Hour of the Week: McCormick and Schmicks

While I usually try not to feature bigger chain restaurants, the happy hour at McCormick and Schmicks is too good to pass up.  McCormick and Schmicks isn’t your typical chain restaurant though, as there are multiple locations around Portland, each with a different feel, and in some cases a different name. Whether it is patio seating on the banks of the Willamette River at McCormick and Schmick’s “Harborside  at the Marina” or relaxing at Jake’s Grill, one of the most historical restaurants in town, you won’t see the happy hour menu change much.  And believe me, that is a good thing.  Six California sushi rolls: $1.95.  Blackened chicken sandwhich and fries: $1.95. 1/2 pound cheeseburger and fries: $2.95 (recently raised

Continue Reading > No comments yet. posted: May 27th, 2009

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