Spring is in the air

The weather this weekend has been rather phenomenal and nothing says it’s spring like baby animals. Baby Canadians Mia and I saw these little guys as we cut through Dawson Creek Park at the end of our ride yesterday. Strike a pose…… I’ll be seeing these guys a lot as we walk Codi through here…

Mudslinger XC

Last weekend I did the Mudslinger XC race down in Blodgett, OR.  Mia and Codi came down to Corvallis with me on Saturday evening and we stayed in the not so up-to-date Days Inn on 9th street.  Recommendation here….find another place to stay.  It was cheap, but it was beat up,run down, and kind of…

Food is Fun.

Everyone has to eat, it’s a fact of life.  You don’t eat, you die.  It’s really that simple.  Also I’m a really big believer in the concept of garbage in – garbage out (GIGO) when it comes to your diet.  If you don’t eat right, you’re bound to feel like crap. Simply put, I don’t…

Waffles and a ride

It was a pretty standard Sunday around here.  Mia and I generally start off Sundays with pancakes using the Alton Brown recipe for buttermilk pancakes that I wrote about back in 2013.  Every now and then we switch it up to french toast, which I kind of just wing it with that recipe.  However, the…

Lee’s Falls Run

I’d read last summer about a waterfall not too far from “downtown” Cherry Grove.  I roughly knew the area because of biking up Patton Valley Rd to the crest of Summit Rd where it intersected with a logging gate. The Oregonian article didn’t give a distance to the falls, only stating that they were about…

It Always Rains in Portland

There is a saying about the Portland area, or the Pacific Northwest in general.  “It always rains in (insert city)”.  The truth is it doesn’t.  Portland gets about as much rain annually as Manchester, NH.  I used that as my reference point when we where trying to decide if we wanted to move here or…