Daily biking in Portland
Every year since 2002, Portland has a 2-week summer fest of bicycling: Pedalpalooza. It’s put on largely by the lovely people at Shift and features more crazy random bike rides than you could ever handle in a two-week period. Just today, for example, I could have chosen to circumnavigate Ross …
The background: It’s been a while since I’ve taken a for-real bike adventure. So with yesterday’s free day, I jumped on the chance to check out the Banks-Vernonia State Trail, an old railroad line that was converted into a 21-mile bike/hike/horse trail. It starts in Banks, Oregon, and appropriately ends …
Oh, how I love the advent of farmers market season in Portland: Exploding bouquets of brilliant flowers, bike baskets full of produce, greens greens greens everywhere, all sorts of little kiddos with all manner of food smeared on their faces, live music–there is nothing about the farmer’s market that fails …
It may not be over 60 degrees yet, but it sure looked like springtime yesterday! (and I might–just might–have taken my shoes off and let my toes get reacquainted to unadulterated ground.) Those trees, of course, are the amazing cherry blossoms along the downtown waterfront, with the Steel Bridge making …
