Call me what you will but spending over 7 hours in the saddle for a ride is a sure fire way to have a good day. I’m also going to have to say that I am grateful for a wife who understands that I need to, every once in a while, go out on a…
Yamhill Gravel Exploring
Presidents Day is one of those holidays that a lot of us government employees get off, but not necessarily everyone else. I had tried to get a group of us together for a ride that Mark had planned out of Yamhill, OR. Unfortunately injury, weather, children or weather made it so that just Mark (Bogie)…
Snowman Snow
I wasn’t sure a Stub Stewart snow ride was going to happen this winter. It has been a very mild winter so far. I was riding in knickers and thermal jersey two weekends ago. However that all changed this weekend. The temps were dropping and the rain has come in. There has been a “winter…
I Should Know Better
The working title for this blog post during today’s ride was “Fucking Skyline”. My mom reads this though, so I thought of something a bit more appropriate (sorry for the F-bomb mom). Anyways let me start with the forecast, which the weather peeps totally blew today. Everyone was expecting showers in the morning and perhaps…
Rhodes HQ – The Original
I refer to Mia and my home here in Oregon as Rhodes HQ. I’ve even tagged it in Facebook and use it as my “location” when posting things from home. The original Rhodes HQ, hell the center of the Rhodes Universe, is in Bow, NH. Today Paul sent me the listing that it is for…
ON & OFF RHODES 