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It is July and I am at the beginning of three whole months off!! My employer very generously offers a (mostly) paid sabbatical after you’ve worked there for seven years — so here I am at 8 years, actually, getting three months off. I’m not sad about having waited till …
Happy solstice!! Bring on those (ever so slowly) lengthening days!! Speaking of lots of darkness. When last we spoke, I was extolling the virtues of teaching myself to embrace running after dark. Not only to extend the amount of time, these shorter days, available to me to run, but also …
. (the little miracles:) You know what? Screw the people who want to play it cool, to skate over the surface of the earth unfazed, who don’t want to stop and look. In such a world, I have no time for them. What I want to do is look people …
Ha! Chalk this post up to shameless self-promotion, but I thought this clip from my professional-athlete brother and his professional-athlete friend, talking about their two “sufferfest” bike/climbing tours, was hilarious (the best stuff for bike touring badassery starts around 40 seconds:) Just for fairness’ sake, this was …
When I think of California’s Bay Area, I think of throngs of people and hordes of traffic. I do not think of good biking. At least, I didn’t, until I went down to visit my good friend Mark, previously of Upcycles in Portland and now relocated to Beeline Bikes in …
What has guest blogger Dieter Loibner been doing since we last heard from him? Why, running into an awesome bike-riding dog and her human! Check it! While her Stasianess [ha! No one has ever nor will anyone ever call me this again:)] was taking the long road to and around …
That’s right. Gladys Bikes, the super awesome shop that (among other things) authored this Valentine’s Day bike love, is moving to NE Alberta and 29th… …and today, they did it by bicycle! This was the first bike move I’ve been to, and I showed up to a glorious mess of …
As you know, I’m a big fan of doing whatever it is you need to do via human-powered transportation. I was super excited this weekend, then, when my friends Collin and Diana got married via bicycle. No, they weren’t actually on their bikes for the ceremony. But they did borrow …
1. Take the looooong way home on the Marine Drive bike path, along the Columbia River, on a sunny day. Watch the various waterfowl swim and dive along the shore. 2. Come up on an older fellow also biking along the path; cheerily call out “on your left!” and smile …
For the last three nights, James and I have been hosting Pete, a self-described red-bearded Welshman traveling around the Pacific Northwest on a tank of a $30 bike that he bought and fixed up when he flew in to Portland. It must be a Warmshowers adventure! I wrote about Warmshowers …