Car-free adventures that don’t necessarily depend on a bike
It may be hard to believe if you only know me through this blog, but lately I’ve been fixated on planning an adventure that doesn’t involve biking. That’s right. I’m scheming a trip where I purposely leave my bike behind. Like last year, I’ll have some time off in September. …
Of the bike questions I often get asked, “how do you carry things without a car?” has a very close competitor: “what do you do when you want to get somewhere really far away?” The answer to that one is, usually, ride there on my bike! Things that seem far often don’t actually …
Okay, this isn’t about biking, but it is a carfree adventure, so I think it belongs. If you’re in Portland and haven’t ever explored the 4-T Trail, it’s probably time. What is the 4-T trail, you ask? Well, it’s a multi-modal loop that takes you around some of the loveliest …
Wait, what? A post about something you can’t see from a bicycle? Heh. Yep. It’s true. It turns out there are some things that you can’t see very well from a bikey vantage–unless you have an amphibious bike, that is:) Last week, I stumbled across Willamette Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated …
