Some of you will have noticed that there’s very little activity on this site, even though it’s the one that we advertise on our personal cards. There’s a reason for this.  It isn’t that I’m not blogging our rides any more – it’s just that I’m primarily doing it elsewhere.  We plan to log all … Continue reading "So where’s the blog?"

Not much of a ride today – a flat three miles to the Lucky Lab and back.  Still, that’s more than I’ve been riding on most days since we returned from Hawaii.  In the last two weeks I’ve only been on the bike three times, for a total of about 40 miles.  This, in spite … Continue reading "Last orders at the Lucky Laborador"

Rachael and I moved to Portland sixteen years ago this spring.  We were living in Salem at the time, and moving from our home to a condominium – another downsizing project.  I’ve been thinking about that move lately of course, because it was the last time we had to deal with readying our home for … Continue reading "Riverstone"

So we returned from our short bike tour of the Big Island  three days ago.  We had a wonderful tour, as we usually seem to do any more, and found cycling there to be much more attractive than we’d really been expecting.  For all the travelling we’ve done, it’s a bit surprising that we’ve never been to … Continue reading "Shedding a few mathoms"

Now that I’m retired, one of the ways I’ve been filling my extra hours is by posting rides Rachael and I have taken in the past that I’ve never published before.  In revisiting some of these old stories, I’ve been reminded of what an important role literature played in our lives.  Compiling a library of paperback novels … Continue reading "On rediscovering the lost art of reading"