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So I’m going to road trip to Portland and Roseburg the week before the 4th and through the 4th to visit family. Was planning on hotels etc. Then I see that Multnomah is no longer reopening... Should I stay in a hotel in a different county? Stay in Portland? I know seems like a weird time to travel but I just feel like I need to do it. Planning on being safe and fully understand that there may not be much to do due to covid.
 
Sedatedfork said:
So I’m going to road trip to Portland and Roseburg the week before the 4th and through the 4th to visit family. Was planning on hotels etc. Then I see that Multnomah is no longer reopening... Should I stay in a hotel in a different county? Stay in Portland? I know seems like a weird time to travel but I just feel like I need to do it. Planning on being safe and fully understand that there may not be much to do due to covid.
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Rent a van, and live in it. And then document it on youtube and make money. Next thing you know, you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams.
 
Stay away from Downtown Portland, a festering shithole of destruction and chaos. If you are there around the 4th, chances are there will be some sort of rallies, or what not meaning that your car will be shit on before being set on fire.
 
No, downtown is the only safe place. There are hundreds of cops on duty.

barfo
 
I'd go over to the coast to Brookings or Bandon...walk the beaches....if you want a city, Eugene is probably the safest for a city of any size and has lots of parks....you can fish in Roseburg if you enjoy that or you can even fish Alton Baker park in Eugene and enjoy the river....fishing is pretty safe during the pandemic if you keep safe distancing...don't go to Portland though..bad time for that trip...Ashland is a cool place from Roseburg but it's probably a ghost town...Medford had a huge protest so I'd avoid Medford as well
 
riverman said:
I'd go over to the coast to Brookings or Bandon...walk the beaches....if you want a city, Eugene is probably the safest for a city of any size and has lots of parks....you can fish in Roseburg if you enjoy that or you can even fish Alton Baker park in Eugene and enjoy the river....fishing is pretty safe during the pandemic if you keep safe distancing...don't go to Portland though..bad time for that trip...Ashland is a cool place from Roseburg but it's probably a ghost town...Medford had a huge protest so I'd avoid Medford as well
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We are planning on maybe going to Crater Lake and seeing if wine tasting is available in the area.
 
THE HCP said:
Have always wanted to go there. Lived here my whole life and have never been.
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When our son graduated and went off to college my wife and I took our first vacation together without him along to tour southern Oregon...took our time...Ashland is a cool little Shakespeare festival town with good restaurants...Crater Lake is beautiful....Medford was weird...Roseburg was logging country just like the small town I live near but bigger...great rivers in Roseburg area though
 
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riverman said:
When our son graduated and went off to college my wife and I took our first vacation together without him along to tour southern Oregon...took our time...Ashland is a cool little Shakespeare festival town with good restaurants...Crater Lake is beautiful....Medford was weird...Roseburg was logging country just like the small town I live near but bigger...great rivers in Roseburg area though
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Did you make it to Jacksonville?
Medford is a great sports town with much history.
When I played legion ball we always played in Medford at the old stadium. We'd stay there for 3/4nights for tourney ball.
 
Hoopguru said:
Did you make it to Jacksonville?
Medford is a great sports town with much history.
When I played legion ball we always played in Medford at the old stadium. We'd stay there for 3/4nights for tourney ball.
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No...we spent one night in Medford...walked around the town, went to a music store and the library...beautiful library...the city seemed dead, boarded up...library was pretty empty...this was quiet a few years ago...2010 or so...we enjoyed Ashland a lot more
 
THE HCP said:
Have always wanted to go there. Lived here my whole life and have never been.
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My wife and I have never been there.
We had reservations a couple summers ago but fires caused it to shut down.
 
Seriously i live in Vancouver and work in Portland. I have yet to see a problem other than on TV. I don't really go downtown at night and i do most of my business during the daylight hours.

This whole "It's a bad time to go to Portland" is way over blown. There were some large peaceful protests a week ago during the day. There are still a few small gatherings during the day now. As far as at night Portland has not seen real problems most of this week per the evening news.
 
kjironman1 said:
Seriously i live in Vancouver and work in Portland. I have yet to see a problem other than on TV. I don't really go downtown at night and i do most of my business during the daylight hours.

This whole "It's a bad time to go to Portland" is way over blown. There were some large peaceful protests a week ago during the day. There are still a few small gatherings during the day now. As far as at night Portland has not seen real problems most of this week per the evening news.
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I don't think in terms of just protests, I think in terms of pandemic risk in Oregon...it's the highest risk population that just had massive crowd exposure...April Oregon had 100 total cases....June 7 they had 147 in a day...the virus isn't visible..I wouldn't go to Portland for any reason right now myself but I don't have to so it's easy...from Lane County south it's safer
 
julius said:
Rent a van, and live in it. And then document it on youtube and make money. Next thing you know, you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams.
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Hey, it worked for me. Now I have wine, women and song all at my fingertips.
 
riverman said:
I don't think in terms of just protests, I think in terms of pandemic risk in Oregon...it's the highest risk population that just had massive crowd exposure...April Oregon had 100 total cases....June 7 they had 147 in a day...the virus isn't visible..I wouldn't go to Portland for any reason right now myself but I don't have to so it's easy...from Lane County south it's safer
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I go to Portland three times a week for my dialysis. Pray for me.
 
riverman said:
When our son graduated and went off to college my wife and I took our first vacation together without him along to tour southern Oregon...took our time...Ashland is a cool little Shakespeare festival town with good restaurants...Crater Lake is beautiful....Medford was weird...Roseburg was logging country just like the small town I live near but bigger...great rivers in Roseburg area though
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Roseburg has a major VA hospital and some of the best fishing in the world. The hospital has a mental wing which my brother was confined to on two occasions. Not the best mental care. It's also the home town of probably the brightest graduate who graduated in my Electrical and Computer engineering class at OSU.
 
THE HCP said:
Have always wanted to go there. Lived here my whole life and have never been.
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Shame on you for not visiting there.
One bit of warning, if you are like me and have a fear of heights, you might not want to take the road the goes all around the rim. The drop offs are frightening should your car even slightly veers too far to that side of the road. I've been around it once and was white knuckled the whole trip, The lodge is very nice. We stayed at our niece's vacation home in Sun River and took a day jaunt down there.
Crater Lake is fabulous to look at at. If you plan on going, take a few peanuts for all the very friendly squirrels. I think I've been there three times if you want to count the one night trip where we drove by on our way back to Portland from S.F.
 
I can’t believe there are Oregonians who have never been to Crater Lake! WTF?!
 
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