Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland
“I like maps, because they lie.” WisÅ‚awa Szymborska, “Map“ . Looking for a poem recently that I’d read in a writing workshop earlier this year, I came across something I’d halfway written about an old bike-and-backpack trip to Mt St Helens. It’s a story I’d meant to write about here …
Well, folks: I’ve been back from my bike trip for a while now and have had about zero motivation to blog about it for some reason. But I DID make a map, cuz I am a giant map nerd. So if you’re curious about route, here’s what it was like: …
Heh. That’s right — this chica is parked in a public library in Idaho, taking a break from baking my brain on the long-sunny-hot ride in from Montana. I didn’t really have a chance to write about it before I left, but this still mostly the beginning of a three-week …
Check this out: a whole string of Cascade volcanoes, starting with Broken Top, then moving, left to right, to South, Middle, and North Sisters, then, smaller, Mt Washington, 3-Fingered Jack, then Mt Jefferson. Just out of the frame after that is Mt Hood: Cascade volcanoes stretching right from where …
