Four Days Until "Day Trips From Portland" Release!

My travel guidebook Day Trips From Portland: Getaway Ideas For the Local Traveler will be available Tuesday May 17.

And...Announcing my new and improved website, and new home for this blog, www.kimcooperfindling.com.

See new site for book tour info and all details, including excerpts from both Day Trips and my second book, Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir, due out in August.

Blooming Eventually will continue at the new site....see you there!

Toodles!

Anacondas in Oregon on the Travel Oregon Blog

Swamps Invade Oregon Coast Aquarium is on the Travel Oregon Blog

OQ Essay Contest Reading Tomorrow!

I will be reading my essay "The Friday's Trilogy", which won the 2011 Oregon Quarterly Essay Contest, tomorrow night on the University of Oregon campus, Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, 7 p.m. The event is free and open to everyone! See here for details.

P.S. Two weeks until the release of my travel guidebook, "Day Trips From Portland"! I'm on Amazon.com! Far out.