Packing went very smoothly this time. We’re getting good at this! Here’s what Pearl looks like when she’s in travelling mode. Pretty remarkable and plenty of room left in the bags to add shoes and clothes. Tom dropped me and the bags at Logan. You can see why we didn’t want to try and wrestle this load onto the shuttle! …
I’m not lost I’m exploring
After a lovely breakfast out on the patio this morning, we put the bike together right in the living room! All went well until we got to the rohloff part and then we had the usual issues with losing gears. Finally decided to just finish up assembly and go for a ride since we had 12 out of 14 gears …
Singing in the rain!
Rosie turned 3 today! We headed to Blue Lake this morning, a fantastic park about 30 minutes away. The kids had a great romp around the park as a gaggle of grownups chased them In true NW Oregon fashion, the rain started to pour down but the timing was good as it was close to lunch time and the park …
This post is brought to you by the letter B
B is for Birthday and we had lots of birthday Saturday in Portland! It was the quarterly family birthday celebration. The sun came out, the dinner was fantastic and it was great to see everyone together. Here are a few birthday pictures to enjoy B is for Beautiful! We headed to Bend on Sunday with everything packed in Jen and …
There’s the bridge!
On Tuesday we traveled to Camp Sherman to bike the Metolius River loops, another Oregon scenic bikeway. We expected this to be a good recovery ride; reasonably flat and short. On the way we stopped at the Tumalo coffee shop again. We noticed this sign at the local elementary school Now that’s a small school! The ride starts at the …