One of the top things people ask me when they learn I don’t have a car is “how do you carry (insert anything large here)??” Oddly enough, people usually settle on “groceries” as the biggest, most bulky load they can think of–which is funny to me, since with very few …
Some of you may remember when I last wrote about the Community Cycling Center’s Bike Club, an after school program that allows kids from families of low income to earn their own bicycles. They just have to show up to the club every day for six weeks, learn all about …
Being unemployed right now means that I probably think about money (and not having any) more than your average bear. Or maybe not, since I hate thinking about money. But either way, I was thinking about it as I biked around today, and I got to wondering how much having …
After a week of sub-freezing temperatures and two days of steady downpour (not that that stopped us from biking, mind you;), it stopped raining this afternoon long enough to take a fairly lovely joyride. And, like every time I’m out, I found new things that make me love Portland all …
