Ideas for camping within a day’s ride from Portland
Well, after many years of avoiding it, I finally got COVID, right in time to not be able to take a sweet 6-day solo bike trip that I’d been planning. Which made me very, very sad, since large(ish) swaths of time to adventure all in a row have been hard …
Memorial Day! This is frequently a weird holiday for me since though I often have some time off, I also often have a hard time getting psyched on it. I’m not sure why really — maybe cuz the snowpack is still usually kinda low, the camping weather is sometimes iffy, …
For a long, long time, I’ve known about CoBreeze, a bus that goes back and forth between Portland and Bend, stopping also at Government Camp and Redmond. It’s never been useful to me, because they’ve had a policy that they’ll only allow bikes on the bus if they’re boxed — …
“You are an odd woman,” my brother told me the other day. We were talking on the phone, and he was perplexed by the fact that I was so excited about the time I’d just spent staying by myself in a cabin in the woods in the snow. I guess …
