EATING
If you're dining on your own dime, we suggest using Willamette Week's Cheap Eats Guide, which features five favs for breakfast and brunch, as well as dirt cheap eats and FREE eats in Portland.

Foodies on the company's dime, should check out WWeek's Food Finder.  

DRINKING
Would an AAN convention be an AAN convention without an all-nighter in search of the best local haunts? Serious connoisseurs of adult libations would be remiss if they didn't study --well in advance-- Portland's Drinkipedia. (And please. Drinking PBR ironically is no longer fashionable.) 

EXPLORING
If your travel plans include a couple of extra days in Oregon, get your "Lewis and Clark" on by visiting one of the state's many outdoor recreational areas.

Mt. Hood and Hood River are only a 45-60 minute drive from Portland. Cannon Beach is an hour-and-a-half North.  Just North of Cannon Beach, at the mouth of the Columbia and Pacific Ocean, lies Astoria.