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Several years ago the owner of Music Millenium, a Portland retail record store, printed 500 bumper stickers with the advice to "Keep Portland Weird." To date, he's sold more than 10,000.

Why? Well, in many ways Portland is weird, but we sure have a lot of fun here. For example, the City's public library, located in the heart of downtown, has just hosted a festival of weirdness, including belly dancing demonstrations, testimonials about the need to recycle, and a mass ukulele performance by a local association which counts more than 500 members who regularly strum Arthur Godfrey's favorite instrument. (By the way, I recognize that if you're under 40, you probably don't know who Arthur Godfrey was, so please Google it and learn.)

So why not plan on coming here for a week or a weekend and discover for yourself how many ways there are to have a good time in Portland. The city is a great music venue -- from rock to bluegrass to country to classical to easy listening to whatever your preference in music is. We have more breweries than any other city in the world, having zipped by Munich, Germany a few years ago to grab top honors. "Food and Wine" magazine just voted us the best restaurant city in the U.S. We're within easy driving distance of dozens upon dozens of top wineries. Our pro basketball team, the Trailblazers, is the one which a number of years ago passed up on drafting Michael Jordan and instead picked Sam Bowie (weird enough for you?!?), and this year, with the first selection in the draft, picked Greg Oden, who promptly underwent a knee operation that will sideline him for at least a year and maybe forever.

We are proud to host Powell's Books, the largest bookstore west of the Mississippi, and a major tourist attraction. Just last week, The Fulton House hosted two visitors from England. The husband was an engineer in an exotic field who complained he could never find any books about his profession; at Powell's, he found three feet of books on the shelves pertaining to his job.

Portland was recently voted the most bike friendly city in the country. And I'm certain some of you remember one of our former mayors who biked to work every day in lederhosen, was elected with the campaign slogan of "Whoop, whoop!", and regularly crossed the Willamette River (which flows through downtown and divides the city into east and west sides) in a canoe.

We don't claim to be particularly weird at The Fulton House, but we are dedicated to offering you the most comfortable accomodations in the most convenient location with the best breakfasts in town.

Book a room and judge for yourself if we don't live up to that boast!