I rode to Portland and back this weekend. Over two days I logged 520 miles. Under normal circumstances not a big deal. But this is the most significant riding I’ve done this year. I could not have picked a better weekend for it.
I left Mount Vernon at 6 am Sunday morning. The trip down was [...]
Saturday’s forecast was for clearing skies and I needed to try out my freshly refurbished seat. So it was the hope of good weather that I left home at 7:30; heading South on I-5. At 8:30 I met up with members of the Southern Cruisers Riding Club, Seattle-East Chapter, at the Old Country Buffet in [...]
Colleen “DantesDame” First returns to the flood-ravaged Chehalis area to assist families in need.
Based on the experiences I had the previous weekend, I decided to go back down south and see if I could help out some more. I’m glad I did. While before I had seen the devastation wrought in the town of [...]
The first week of December brought with it amazing weather. Heavy snow in the mountains combined with a steady hard rain and then rising temperatures created tremendous flooding in the Pacific Northwest. The town of Chehalis (just south of Olympia and 90 miles south of Seattle) was devastated by an overflowing Chehalis River. On Friday [...]
Fossil, OR
Labor Day weekend, 2007
Carolyn had left San Francisco with her friend Jenny on Thursday the 30th and made her way north. Meanwhile, I would leave my house on Saturday morning and meet them “in the middle”, the “middle” being La Pine, OR. It was only a 6-hour ride to La Pine from Seattle, including [...]
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