Things you might see while biking: disparaging graffiti! :)

Ha! Though this particular piece of sidewalk graffiti close-ish to my house was not meant for me (so far as I know;), it was certainly a good reminder today to not take myself too seriously! It was also not too far from another painted addition to the landscape that said, in similar handwriting, “fuck the [...]

things you CAN’T see from a bike

Wait, what? A post about something you can’t see from a bicycle? Heh. Yep. It’s true. It turns out there are some things that you can’t see very well from a bikey vantage–unless you have an amphibious bike, that is:) Last week, I stumbled across Willamette Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated to the protection and restoration [...]

fun in the (sort of:) snow!

I was surprised to get a phone call from James this morning not 15 minutes after he’d left for work. “You have to get down here!” he said. Unused to such phone calls while he’s still in the midst of his morning ride, I was a little worried that something bad had happened–a crash, an [...]

“I tramp a perpetual journey…”

Of course: a magical combination of feeling disgruntled about work and reading a book about long-distance adventure has once more kindled the ever-flickering stasia wanderlust. (As if it’s not enough to have just gotten back from Puerto Rico…) * Hm. I’ve now tried a whole bunch of ways to explain myself up there, but it [...]