Daily biking in Portland
Okay, I promise I’ll write about Death Valley soon (thanks for your patience, those of you who have been bugging me about it!:). But I’m gushing with happiness about today, so I’m just going to gush a little over the internet too. It can’t be helped;) Did anyone else in …
Despite the forecast and the school cancellations, it never really got around to much snow in our neighborhood today — but we sure did get a lot of freezing rain. And though that kind of weather makes it so super easy to cuddle inside with tea and blankets, it’s also …
So, Portland has this awesome park, a park that is over 5100 acres, a park with a running/hiking trail that’s 27 miles long, a park crisscrossed by more than seventy miles of other trails, a park that, in parts, still feels like wilderness. That park, of course, is Forest Park. …
Somewhere along the line of America’s social development, darkness became synonymous with danger. I don’t mean skin color, though one could certainly draw similar and similarly unfair comparisons. I mean places that are unlit. Places where you can’t see. Places sans streetlight. I think about this often when I bike …
