Daily biking in Portland
Seriously, y’all. If you ever commute by bike in Portland, rearrange your route so that on the last Friday of every month you go over either the Hawthorne or Steel bridges between 7 and 9 am. Your reward will be free coffee, donuts, bananas, treats, sometimes even bacon or oatmeal–whatever …
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m totally behind the times here, but it turns out that the Portland Bureau of Transportation hosts a lunchtime brown bag talk every month, all about bicycle issues! Apparently this has been happening since January 2007, so that will show you how behind …
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 …
Though I was planning to get a whole bunch of work done yesterday, the relative sunshine enticed me out for adventure. When it’s sunny in February in Oregon, after all, you’ve got to take advantage. Adventure rides often have no set agenda, I just turn in whatever direction seems most …
