Though I have a sweet inflatable kayak that I bought a few years ago, it’s been a minute since I’ve used it. I don’t think I took it out a single time last year, what with biking across the country all summer and then being fully enmeshed in school/classes and …
On my way home from work yesterday, I was nearly hit by a car. I realize in typing that out that it’s both a somewhat sensationalist thing to say, and also something that happens so frequently in various forms of seriousness and closeness that it’s sort of meaningless. But to …
This was not a car-free adventure. In fact, it was a fairly fossil-fuel intensive adventure that involved flying to Billings, Montana, renting a car, and driving it down to Dayton, Wyoming and around the area to help support my friend who was running the Bighorn 100-mile trail race. But it’s …
A million years ago, my brother and I talked in the abstract about biking to Mt. Hood (to be all settler-name about it) and climbing it. The conversation went something along the lines of why haven’t you climbed Mt. Hood yet when you live so close to it? (him) and …
