Yet another landslide…and travel frustrations.

Hello friends. Today is the day that I leave for Vancouver for the New Year holiday. I'll be boarding an Amtrak Cascades train a little before 3pm, which will whisk me away to the Terminal City. Or at least that's how it should happen. I learned Sunday night that there is a landslide on the...

Urban Adventure League postcard club!

If you've been around here long enough, you know I like leading bicycle rides and walks. And I also like making flyers and art to promote those events. I used to be pretty good about flyering around Portland, but not so much anymore. But I still like "getting the word out" via paper. So I've...

A new coat of paint

Hello, regular readers! Since many of you may be reading my posts via WordPress reader or some other RSS feed, I just wanted to let you know I changed the theme on the blog. While the old theme/look was serviceable, it wasn't that exciting, something I picked out quickly about a year before the WordPress...

Coffee Outside.

See? Coffee outside doesn't just happen in Portland!

Heading north of the 49th for New Years

New Years is just around the corner. And my annual tradition since New Year 2007 is to high-tail it out of Portland. My New Years before that were always at best "eh", and I figured that getting away from the all-too-familiar was a good idea. And I'm not about to change that any year soon!...

A Tuesday eramblee

I had the two days before Christmas off. (Yes, I worked on Christmas.) Originally I had hoped to pull of a pre-Xmas camping trip like we did last year. But this year there didn't seem to be the enthusiasm to do it, and the weather forecast looked iffy.* I didn't feel like having a solo...

Camp and Trek book

If you know me well enough or have spent enough time around here, you know that I did old books about bicycles and camping. Here's a book I got earlier this year called "Camp and Trek" written by Jack Cox and published by Lutterworth Press, London UK, 1956. This book was intended as a guide for...

Post Xmas Night-time Ramble, Friday 26 December

Hey all! We'll be having a fun little ride here on Friday December 26th. The holidays are over, now it's time to get away from the fam and get on your bike. Meet at Hopworks Urban Brewery, 2944 SE Powell Blvd at 5pm for Happy Hour food and drink. We'll depart sometime after 6. The...