Ok, why am I not surprised this video comes from Portland? Let me take this opportunity to request from the Portlanders and Oregonians, any suggestions as to what/where to visit when in Portland. I'll be going there next month for five days and would like to see much of the city and surrounding countryside (and get in a hike or two). Any advice would be appreciated (I already know about the Beer Festival).

Here is a small sampling of City Repair / Village Building Convergence sites from my web site. (I sometimes have been an unofficial photographer for VBC... and it's people like City Repair / VBC who make Portland the kind of place people like me keep moving too.)

A new intersection repair this year in Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2007/05/intersection_repair_by_ne...

Sunnyside Piazza, one of the grandmas:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2006/08/repainting_the_sunnyside_...
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2006/05/repainting_the_sunnyside.php
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2004/05/communication_k.php

Cob bench at possibly the original intersection repair, Share-it (Sharett) square in Sellwood Moreland neighborhood: http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/11/bench_in_shape_1.php
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2004/05/mixing_cob_at_s.php
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/11/woman_bench_sha.php

Cob Sauna in Sunnyside:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/06/village_sauna_b.php
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/06/cob_sauna.php

Mixing Cob in Hosford-Abernethy:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/06/cob_mixers_near.php

Cob Dragon Bench in Kerns:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/06/davinci_school_1.php

Shrine at City Bike in Kerns:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/12/shrine_at_city_1.php

VBC assists in building Dignity Village for homeless folks:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2004/05/volunteers_buil_1.php

And that's just a taste of what VBC and City Repair do each year. Learn more here: http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php/projects/vbc7