Mia and I signed up for the Crater Lake Rim Tour in late August, we’ve got almost 3 months to get ready for over 7,000′ of climbing in 60 miles. So today was a bit of a chance to do some shorter climbs and enjoy some nice local views. Helvetia Tavern is less than 5…
Redwoods and Crater Lake Weekend
Mia’s birthday falls quite conveniently on or around Memorial Day. We’ve made it an annual tradition to go away for this holiday weekend and this year was no exception. We’d made plans to hook up with the San Francisco family, we had not seen them in over 2 years since moving out here. Ironic since…
Bluberries and Clover
Nothing profound or life changing today. Mia and I just did a nice simple ride and enjoyed some comfortable temps and puffy clouds. Wicked psyched to see how far along the blueberries are. We should be picking about 2-3 weeks early this year from the looks of it. You can see the berries from the…
Ramona Falls Hike
The original plan for today had actually been to hike Dog Mountain in The Gorge, but for whatever reason we weren’t really feeling that one when we woke up this morning. So after breakfast and perusing some of our hiking books, we opted for Ramona Falls off of Lolo Pass. It was the right decision…
Computer troubles
So our home PC pooped the bed this past weekend. Finding a replacement was easy, but reinstalling and getting backup files off the external hard drive has been a huge P.I.T.A over the past two days. Finally got the important stuff up and running and should be getting back to normal operation soon. I did…
Insomnia Coffee Pastry Run
Insomnia Coffee is a local coffee company with locations in Hillsboro on Baseline/53rd and over in Tannasbourne, plus our personal favorite location in Cannon Beach. Just keep following this guy Today they held a “5K-ish” run (not a race) from the Baseline store to the Tannasbourne store. The entry fees all went to a very…
ON & OFF RHODES 