Good rides in and around Portland. Or just good riding adventures, sometimes with the Oregon Randonneurs
Surprise! Today was a holiday for me, so with a full day off, I decided to ride out to Sauvie Island, one of my favorite winter places. It’s just far enough that I don’t do it that frequently, but I try to go at least once or twice a year, …
Magic is taking myself on a solo adventure to Hood River, a gift from past stasia to present stasia, a gift of several days just to explore, wander, be. . (sweet little bikey at “The Hook” in Hood River) . Magic is a bonus two miles of bike path that …
This past weekend I had a long, full, busy, and lovely work thing up in North Bend, Washington. I hadn’t even thought to bring my bike until a coworker of mine told me that he was bringing his and that we should ride bikes together. So, I rather precariously balanced …
In what was perhaps the best idea ever, on Friday last week, a totally gorgeous day, I opted to bike rather than drive the work truck to a trail. Usually I can’t really do this, since the places I might go for work are pretty far-flung, all over Southwest Washington …
Let me just say how lovely it is to visit people who have mountain bikes you can borrow, in a place where you can literally ride them out the door and be on trails in 10 minutes. That’s what being in Tahoe with my little brother and his wife (!!) …
This is one of those posts where I’m writing about a thing that happened a million years ago now (or, yknow, a few weeks ago;) — but that’s how it goes sometimes. So imagine, if you will, back in the holiday season, when people were excited about lights and ornaments …
Well, I didn’t exactly plan for this, but today I ended up taking a 4-or-so hour bike adventure exploring Bellingham, WA, and it was quite possibly the best thing ever. . (find the real bike! Just one of many sweet little murals I ran into:) . I’m up here as …
In a great turn of events, I went to the library today to pick up this book I talked about in my last post: And then I got home to find that I had a mystery package on my porch. Sure enough, it was another copy of the same …
Sometimes, you have to take a break from blogging. More on that later, maybe, but for now, I bring you: the Heritage Tree Scavenger hunt, by bicycle. (adventure bikies and the bottom of a Carolina Poplar Heritage Tree:) One awesome thing about friends is how they think …
This has become a bit of a tradition for me: come spring, when the world starts warming up and the days get longer, when the buds start exploding and the birds that have spent the winter in warmer pastures start to return, I set out on my bike to pay …