Who biked 100 miles for the first time in his life this weekend? This guy! (and look how happy he is about it!:) That’s right. For more than a year now, James has been talking about riding a century, but it’s never really worked out. Last summer his back was …
In Portland, there’s this pretty fantastic organization called City Repair that builds community through projects that re-transform public space into something that’s actually inviting to the public. All those cob benches and painted intersections around town? Among other things? City Repair. I stumbled upon this City Repair site yesterday when …
There’s something about biking that you really don’t get when you’re in a car: a heightened awareness of what’s going on around you. And when you take heightened sensory awareness and add the bike-induced ability to stop randomly, pull off the road, and actually look at things, you turn what …
While it may seem that I have disappeared off the face of the earth, I am, in fact, still alive and well and (perhaps more surprisingly) in Portland. But I’ve been spending a lot of time with these two lovely people… …who made a Portland stopover on a looooong trip …
