I had an unexpected present on my way to work this morning: new bike infrastructure on my commute! There are many lovely parts to my commute up to the I-5 bridge and over the Columbia River, and there are some not as lovely parts. But today, one not-as-lovely part was…
The other day, I was biking east on the Springwater Corridor, which is one of my favorite bike paths in Portland and is 21 almost-totally-car-free miles long. It goes along the Willamette River, then up Johnson Creek, traveling through wetlands, open prairies, and between parks. It’s the way I used…
I’ve sure I’ve written about this before (ha! I lost the search button on my blog in a random update and haven’t been motivated to fix it yet, so I can’t actually tell;) But one of the very best things about Portland — one reason I can never really imagine…
For a long, long time, I’ve known about CoBreeze, a bus that goes back and forth between Portland and Bend, stopping also at Government Camp and Redmond. It’s never been useful to me, because they’ve had a policy that they’ll only allow bikes on the bus if they’re boxed —…
With four days off in a row the other week, before my new job started, I decided to go to the coast. A good college friend of mine is out near Lincoln City living in a cabin for the next three months, and back when I wasn’t sure if I’d…
The city of Sisters, OR is not particularly close to Portland, especially for someone with no car, yet somehow I find myself there on my bike an awful lot. Perhaps because it’s just on the other side of McKenzie Pass (definitely my favorite way over the Cascade mountains), but…
That’s right: with all this spring rain, this “road” has such an amazing pothole/pond that a pair of Mallard ducks have taken up residence inside it. (SE Woodward, between 78th and 79th) Which is to say, I think this road has crossed the line from infrastructure to native habitat. As…
For an exceptionally long time now, people have been telling me I’d love Boulder, Colorado. I’m talking years and years, and many different people, all with the same message: you will love Boulder, whether it’s for the farmer’s market or the easy access to nature or the bike paths or…
If there’s something that Portland loves, it’s a wholesome party about something cute and community-oriented. Saturday was that party — to celebrate the new Sellwood Bridge, which opens for real on Tuesday. (Don’t get distracted by that amazing car covered entirely in yarn: this is actually a picture of the…
Sometimes on your bike, you find just the right route and all is well. And sometimes, you end up on a controlled access freeway with semi trucks whizzing past at 80mph. (oops!!) I just found this picture again today while I was looking for something else. It’s from my fall…