Welcome, Friend!

Welcome to Ray Speen's Guide to Portland, Oregon, America's number one vacation destination!

It has been 20 years since the publication of the groundbreaking, underground travel guide "Ray Speen's Guide to Key West" changed the landscape of the travel guide industry, while also changing the landscape of Key West, and indeed, changing the landscape of the mind. Since those days of paper and glue, there has been a lot of water under the bridges Speen has passed over in his travels and travails. (Occasionally there has been water over the bridge, and dude has passed under the bridge, as in a boat, but that's neither here nor there.)

Thus starts a new era of Speen Travel Guides which, instead of languishing with the decade old Fodor's in the free bins of used bookstores, now take the dynamic and ever-evolving form of the online journal. You can access the new guides for free on you computer, smart phone, personal game device, Tic-Tac Box, eye-chip, or secret agent wristwatch. And instead of taking a passive roll, you now have the option to comment and become part of the conversation.

This, the inaugural Speen Guide to Portland, Oregon, will be updated regularly and soon followed with city guides for destinations throughout the United States, followed by international destinations, and God willing, interstellar ones.

Read from front to back, back to front, top to bottom, bottom to top, from side to side, or upside-down while brushing your teeth! Make sure to utilize, if helpful, the search function, the subject and place index, and the sidebar categories.

And as always, when you split from a place you've visited, leave behind good vibes and no trash.

See you in Portland!