You can take your home with you if it’s a car–why not if it’s a bike too? Check it out: it’s powered by a roof-mounted wind turbine, and there are solar panels to run the stove and hot water. And it has a kitchen, bed, and everything! I don’t know …
For the last two nights, James and I have had a relative stranger sleeping upstairs in our house. No, it’s not as creepy as it sounds: Neil, our short-term house guest, is the first person to contact me via the Warmshowers website, a resource for touring cyclists. Basically what it …
What better way to celebrate a Friday commute over one of Portland’s lovely bridges than happy people serving you free coffee and donuts? Oh, how about free breakfast tacos too? Gluten-free pancakes, perhaps? That’s what Shift’s Breakfast on the Bridge is all about. Run entirely by volunteers who simply want …
Every year since 2002, Portland has a 2-week summer fest of bicycling: Pedalpalooza. It’s put on largely by the lovely people at Shift and features more crazy random bike rides than you could ever handle in a two-week period. Just today, for example, I could have chosen to circumnavigate Ross …
