I have no car and no available friends to drive me...Just started searching...And leave tomorrow...!|||other than walking or hitchiking or biking
you can get a greyhound ticket for $23.50
http://www.greyhound.com/home/|||hitchhike? walk? you're probably going to have to get a taxi or take a bus|||The only option I can think of other than Greyhound or a Horizon connection flight out of Eugene would be to take the Amtrak Cascades from Eugene to Union Station and taking the MAX from Downtown Portland (the red line MAX station is about 5 blocks from Union Station) and take the Red line down to PDX.
Here's a map of the MAX line.
http://trimet.org/schedules/maps/maxsyst鈥?/a>
The closest light rail station to Union is Oldtown/Chinatown.
Here's a route from Union Station to the MAX station. It's only about a half a mile.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d%26amp;saddr=Po鈥?/a>
Here's Amtrak's website.
http://www.amtrakcascades.com/
Fares are around $25-$30 and MAX isn't that expensive. GIVE YOURSELF PLENTY OF TIME!!! Amtrak tends to be off schedule. It takes 2-4 hours to get from Eugene to Portland on Amtrak. Unfortunately, freight has right-of-way.|||I found myself in a similar situation today except that I have to get from Tacoma to Eugene tomorrow, then make the trip back on Sunday.
There's a good chance trains are all sold out by now, but that might be worth a quick check. I bought train tickets for the trip down, which were like $69, and greyhound tickets for the trip back up, which were $41.
Hitchhiking would probably be the cheapest way, but those are really your main two options. I'd recommend Greyhound if you want the cheaper price. I'm sure a taxi to Portland would be hella expensive, so that should only be a last resort. (I took a taxi just across Tacoma once and it was like $10)
Once you get to Portland, it should be pretty easy and cheap to take the local transportation to the airport. good luck.
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