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 …
It is a fundamental axiom of stasia-hood that if left to my own scheduling devices, I would like to be as efficient as possible. That is, cram all the work (i.e. all the time I need to be in Portland) into a specific amount of time, and cram all the …
Sometimes, when you make a plan to go somewhere exciting, the roads are too scary (Highway 26 on a sunny Memorial Day weekend, I’m looking at you), or the alternate roads too nonexistent (logging roads privatized or closed since my map was printed, I’m looking at you, too). Or maybe …
This last week officially marked the real start of bike camping season for me. It’s a little late this year, I think, for a few reasons. One is that during my first break of the year, when last year I took advantage of the time to take a mini trip …
