On my way home from work today I ran smack into a great reminder of how much I love Portland in the summer: (the Salmon Street fountain and the general revelry it attracts:) What this picture can’t show you, of course, is the sound of live music coming from the …
Tomorrow, many brave people will join the Oregon Randonneurs to ride the Applegate 600k, approximately 375 miles from Oregon City down to Cottage Grove and back. Since I really wanted to do this ride but work tomorrow and Sunday when it actually happens, I did the next best thing: rode …
While it’s true that I avoid poppy magazines and other media with their pictures of stick-thin supermodels and perfect hair, I can’t say that I’ve entirely escaped their influences. True, when I was little my parents did an excellent job surrounding me with books and magazines and movies of substance, …
This is my new favorite picture of my bike: It’s got (almost:) all the essentials for a happy stasia: lupine, playing the role of nature my bike and burley, playing the role of human-powered adventure and, of course, mostly-blue skies, sunshine, and open road, playing themselves. And yes. I really …
