Alright. I said that maybe I would write about this later, and here I am, much later;) But all summer, I’ve been jealously safeguarding a 10-day block of time I had off as my “sacred solo stasia time” — in part because last year I felt like I didn’t quite …
I just got back this week from a very lovely solo bike-and-backpack adventure, which maybe I will write more about later. But something I was thinking a lot about while out rambling was speed. . (stopping to take pictures does not make you fast, heh) From part of my trip, …
This may be a tradition now: 4 days off for Memorial Day with no idea what I want to do with myself until basically the day before;) What I did definitely want to do was have that feeling of exploration that I’ve been loving lately. So with that in mind, …
I never did take a big bike trip this year — which I’m not really so sad about, given the circumstances, though maybe a little sad. I still had some pretty good adventures in a stupid and crazy COVID year, so I feel pretty thankful about that, lose-myself-in-the-wilds bike trip …
“You are an odd woman,” my brother told me the other day. We were talking on the phone, and he was perplexed by the fact that I was so excited about the time I’d just spent staying by myself in a cabin in the woods in the snow. I guess …
Check this out: a whole string of Cascade volcanoes, starting with Broken Top, then moving, left to right, to South, Middle, and North Sisters, then, smaller, Mt Washington, 3-Fingered Jack, then Mt Jefferson. Just out of the frame after that is Mt Hood: Cascade volcanoes stretching right from where …
For someone who spends most of her working life with people, who volunteers for farmers markets and other things with people, who teaches and mentors people, who loves being part of communities of people — for all of that, often, I just want to disappear. That’s not as creepy or …
Well folks, I’m back from the North Cascades! And I know you’ve been worried about it since I posted about this, oh, back at the end of August, but I’m happy to report that backpacking by bike is possible! In fact, this is probably the bike trip where I’ve done …
Let’s start right off with an ode to local Chambers of Commerce. If I could give any bike tourist — or really anyone traveling at all — one piece of advice, it would be to stop at every local visitor info center. I mean, do your research beforehand too, but …
Hi, all! I’m back! And one of the biggest question marks for me whenever I come back from any semi-long-term bike trip is how the heck I’m going to handle being thrown back to “normal” life, life in which there are obligations that don’t only originate from me, in which …