Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland
Here we go!! This is James and my last half-day in Portland before we start three months of bike travel! Neither of us has ever bike-traveled for this long, and we’ve never traveled for this long together, and there are just so many unknowns about this all — which is …
Happy new year!! :) And, how was that for a grandiose title to a blog post? :) I very rarely write about adventure before I do it, because it turns out I’m kinda superstitious about that — I don’t like to say that I’m going to do something until I’m …
I never did take a big bike trip this year — which I’m not really so sad about, given the circumstances, though maybe a little sad. I still had some pretty good adventures in a stupid and crazy COVID year, so I feel pretty thankful about that, lose-myself-in-the-wilds bike trip …
“I like maps, because they lie.” WisÅ‚awa Szymborska, “Map“ . Looking for a poem recently that I’d read in a writing workshop earlier this year, I came across something I’d halfway written about an old bike-and-backpack trip to Mt St Helens. It’s a story I’d meant to write about here …
