Every year since 2002, Portland has a 2-week summer fest of bicycling: Pedalpalooza. It’s put on largely by the lovely people at Shift and features more crazy random bike rides than you could ever handle in a two-week period. Just today, for example, I could have chosen to circumnavigate Ross …
My understanding is that bees can only sting you once, since they die with the sting. While biking home today, however, I somehow ended up getting stung not once but three times when some bee-type creature flew down my shirt. Sure enough, one sting for each boob, and one on …
The background: It’s been a while since I’ve taken a for-real bike adventure. So with yesterday’s free day, I jumped on the chance to check out the Banks-Vernonia State Trail, an old railroad line that was converted into a 21-mile bike/hike/horse trail. It starts in Banks, Oregon, and appropriately ends …
This video… What Inspires Me from Laura Brown on Vimeo. …is perhaps the nicest thing anyone has ever done. I was going to say “done for me,” but even though it’s about me, she didn’t actually make it for me–it’s actually meant to be an example video for someone else’s …
