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HOME STRETCH FROM LONDON TO PORTLAND

June 7, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The home stretch is the payoff for travelers. Under budget, on time, no lost passports or ID? Check. Spend the last night in London relaxing and resting up for the nine hour flight in the morning? Wouldn’t that make sense? Resting up to sit for nine hours? Or . . .

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: air travel, british airlines, Carnaby street, English roads, heathrow, home, home stretch, london, London taxi, London theater, moulin rouge, Oregon, piccadilly, Portland, safe travels, Seattle, soho, travel, travel plans, uber

THE RENTAL GAME CHANGE UP PITCH

March 8, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The rules of the rental game go like this: You pay someone to live in their room or drive their car. If you’re thinking hotels and Hertz, there’s been a change. Like a change up pitch in baseball, it’s leaves people wondering what happened. First the change up:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Airbnb, airbnb host, car rental, change up, hotels, rental, rental car, rental game, smart traveler, travel, traveler, turo, uber, uber driver

FAMILY COLLECTIONS OVERLOAD? OFFERUP

August 22, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Where is the line between family collections and hoarding? How can you tell when you’re over that line, way over? In this well researched post on BoomerPdx I will dip into the experience of a Museum Collection Manager for an interview. Readers familiar with such details will automatically know what I’m talking […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: aging parents, Antiques Roadshow, Baby Boomers, barter economy, boomers, cash, family collections, form and function, IKEA, lyft, millennials, museum collection, NY Times, offerup, Oregon, rental life, status, target, Thomas Wolfe, Tom wolfe, uber

POLYFACE OREGON EVOLUTION

October 28, 2016 by David Gillaspie

A state of many faces: Polyface Oregon (Inspired by Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms in Virginia) 1. Change your point of view. Is Oregon all about timber, fishing, and farming? Or a high tech mecca on the leading edge of Asian commerce? On one hand it’s a thriving environment for Airbnb, Uber, and OfferUp, start […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Airbnb, hemp, hops, joel salatin, offerup, old oregon, Oregon, oregon face, pacific northwest, polyface, POLYFACE FARMS, polyface oregon, Portland, SE Portland, Strategic disturbance, uber, wine grape horticulture

MILLENNIAL BASHING? NOT SO FAST, BOOMER

December 9, 2015 by David Gillaspie

Baby Boomers need to stop Millennial bashing for the sake of all. Remember the generation too lazy to work, to loaded to care, and too free to stick around? Were those millennials or boomers? Self pampered boomers look at millennials today with everything from disgust to loathing, especially since they raised them. They are experts […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: Airbnb, angel investor, Baby Boomers, BOOMER, boomers, dot bomb era, IPO, millennial bashing, millennial mouthpiece, Oregonian, Portland, Puppet Labs, time magazine, uber, venture capitalist

OREGON SHARING: WHEN IS IT ENOUGH?

February 17, 2015 by David Gillaspie

The Sharing Economy, Or Just An Excuse To Complain. For all good reasons to share, because it’s the right thing to do, because you can make money doing nothing, because it’s so easy, there’s as many reasons not to share. That’s the sharing economy. Use my stuff for a price. A lower price than buying […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Airbnb, airbnb style, Baby Boomers, boomerpdx, boomers, cylvia hayes, john kitzhaber, kitzhaber, millennials, Oregon, OREGON GOVERNMENT, Oregonlive, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, sharing economy, time magazine, uber

HOW GoLocalPDX IMPROVES OREGON

September 3, 2014 by David Gillaspie

A Local Source For BoomerPDX Endorses GoLocalPDX For Good Journalism. Before Portland becomes the go-to city for all things hipster and start-up, GoLocalPDX spills the beans on why not to move here. Maybe it’s an inside joke from a company who recently opened their own Portland outlet? GoLocal started on the other side of America, […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Airbnb, baby boomer, beavers, boomers, Ducks, GenX, golocalpdx, millennials, Oregon, Oregon Trail, Portland, Portland Oregon, portland trailblazers, Tea Party, uber, vancouver

THE LAST GENERATION (before the internet)

August 23, 2014 by David Gillaspie

The Moment Of Internet Conception. Being the last of anything signals a changing of the guard, but the last generation before the internet? Is this special? It’s not the last Civil War, or WWI, veteran. It’s not the last generation before electric lights. If baby boomers are the last generation before the internet, then we’re […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: Airbnb, Baby Boomers, Babyboomersocialclub.com, blogger, boomer blogger, boomers, dot bomb, dot com, Google+, high tech, Internet, online, Portland boomer blogger, sharing economy, THE LAST GENERATION (before the internet), uber

PORTLAND OREGON SHARING ECONOMY

June 13, 2014 by David Gillaspie

Try It Bro, You’ll Like It. Baby boomers are into sharing? I don’t think so, but Portland baby boomers are getting a close-up of modern sharing. But let’s back it up a little, first. Young boomer non-conformists, known as hippies, shared everything. They shared rides, loves, and space. They shared food, drink, and music. Listen […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Airbnb, apartment living, Baby Boomers, boomers, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, PORTLAND OREGON SHARING ECONOMY, sharing economy, sixties, uber

HOME STRETCH FROM LONDON TO PORTLAND

THE RENTAL GAME CHANGE UP PITCH

FAMILY COLLECTIONS OVERLOAD? OFFERUP

POLYFACE OREGON EVOLUTION

MILLENNIAL BASHING? NOT SO FAST, BOOMER

HOW GoLocalPDX IMPROVES OREGON

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