Human powered exploration. Bicycles. Touring. Camping. Film Photography. Portland!
Unnamed dirt road off of SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, 8 July 2022. Camera: Pentax IQZoom (Espio) 928. Film: Fuji 200 I've mentioned here before how deeper SW Portland, the part of the quadrant not close to the river and over the West Hills, is still a "Here Be Dragons" on my mental Portland map. And I... Continue Reading →
Marshall Cascades, Tryon Creek at Marshall Park. Camera: Minolta SR-T 101. (SRT-101) Film: AristaEDU 200 (Fomapan 200) It was "kids weekend". Emee and her ex split custody, and Saturday March 6 we had the kids. We try to have a little adventure with them to counter all the computer time they get. For me it's... Continue Reading →
Olympus Pen EES-2. Kodak Portra 400. I've stated previously that Portland's SW "quadrant" is still the "here be dragons" on my Rose City mental map. Despite living in Portland for almost 20 years, the area of SW over the West Hills is still a fairly unexplored area for me. I know the main roads, but... Continue Reading →
I've said it here before: I haven't been biking as much as I feel I should. Blame COVID, blame laziness, blame inertia, blame easy access to a motor vehicle. So of course I feel guilty about my lack of biking, and try to figure out ways to get out on the bike more, beyond my... Continue Reading →
I've lived in Portland for almost 20 years. In these two decades I've gotten a good grasp on most of the 133 square miles of the Rose City, from the central core to the far-flung areas like St Johns and far East Portland. But after all this time, there's one area that I still don't... Continue Reading →
Portland is a rather large city. Its 640,000 denizens occupy an area of 145 square miles. So there's a lot of area. For many people, "far out" Portland is the part of the city east of I-205, a vast swath of postwar suburbia. But I spend a lot of time out that way. For me,... Continue Reading →
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