With this new-fangled job of mine and the new-fangled commute it entails, I find myself in the position of being a commuting blank slate. I do not yet have a clearly-established route. I don’t know the shortcuts or the lower-traffic streets or the fun little secrets or the best ways…
This is just a fun little community thing happening this week to support running errands by bicycle. SE Clinton Street is Portland’s original bicycle boulevard (now called neighborhood greenways), established all the way back when my brother was born in 1985. (Alex, it’s as old as you are, ya damn…
Okay, fine, this was about two weeks ago, but I just found it in my real-life journal and it made me laugh all over again. As I pulled into Hoyt Arboretum just now — short detour on the way to work — an older dude getting out of his car…
A bikey wander along the south waterfront today made me remember how much I like a lot of the stuff going on down there. It’s been “developing” for as long as I can remember, at least 10 years since I lived in Lake Oswego and biked that way to get…