Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland
The city of Sisters, OR is not particularly close to Portland, especially for someone with no car, yet somehow I find myself there on my bike an awful lot. Perhaps because it’s just on the other side of McKenzie Pass (definitely my favorite way over the Cascade mountains), but …
So, until last week, Las Vegas was probably the bottom of the list of places I ever thought I would visit. Gambling, excess, and debauchery is not really my thing, and that’s kind of what I figured Las Vegas was all about. And then my bitty brother bought a house …
Back in September, I was making my way via bicycle through North Cascades National Park. I was not quite a week in and had just emerged from my very first backpack-by-bike experience: after getting backcoutry permits and the requisite bear canister from the ranger station in Marblemount, I’d ridden my …
Funny story: I thought, given the turning over of a new year and whatnot (even if I’m a little late to the party here), that I should look back to the end of 2015 or beginning of 2016 to see what words of wisdom or hopes for the future I …
