Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland
Heh. I know I mentioned previously that this last trip to South America was not a biking trip — but of course we found a way to sneak in a little bit of bike time. (his-n-hers rented mountain bikes) From the sweet little city of El Chaltén in …
Lest you were concerned, my impending absence from this blog means not that I’ve been smooshed by a bus but that I’m in South America! This is not a bike trip, but it will sure be a transit and hiking trip! That’s all for now:)
“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 …
