Oct 18 2007
Portland, Maine != Portland, Oregon
When I checked my email before bed last night, I was excited to see that one of my photos (shown below) had been selected for the short list to make the 3rd edition of the Schmap Guide to Portland. I’d never heard of Schmap before, so I started doing a little digging.
Looking at their homepage (www.schmap.com), I noticed that most of their travel guides seemed to be for cities a good bit bigger than Portland, ME. I took a look at the photo submission page that I was given, and the guide that it was intended to be part of. Sure enough, I saw things about Mt. Hood and saw Vancouver, WA on the map just above Portland. As I suspected, Schmap does not offer a guide to my new home town but rather that larger and more well-known Portland on the west coast. And thus, my excitement evaporated into disappointment…