Fall! It’s one of my favorite times ever. The windy energy of flying leaves, the downpours followed by brilliant rainbows, the air that feels electric and the colors that seem so vibrant after the dull heat of summer… it makes me want to ride and ride and ride. (who …
At my workplace, there’s no good, secure place to park a bicycle for a whole day, so ever since I started working there I’ve been hauling my bike down a long flight of stairs every morning and parking in my cubicle. You may remember this from after one particularly …
“Without risk, adventure is an empty word.” –William Sullivan, Listening for Coyote As I sit on my back porch in this amazingly gorgeous Portland fall weather — sunny, crisp, everything bright, trees turning all shades of brilliant — it’s hard to imagine that anything could possibly be better than this. …
Sometimes, when you make another plan to go somewhere exciting, the entire Columbia River Gorge catches on fire, and you have to re-evaluate. Thus it is that my much-anticipated bike-and-backpack around Mt Adams trip has become instead a Vancouver Island bike-and-train-and-ferry-(and, hopefully, still backpacking) trip. It took me a bit …
