Despite several stoppages on I-5, we piled three wide into LB’s truck and headed south to Portland last weekend. Got into town just at the stroke of midnight to arrive at a house where everyone was already asleep. Okay… Lindsay was still ‘awake.’ Why all this? Simple - beer.
Saturday we attended Oregon Brewers Festival. This [...]
Filed under: Events, General on July 31st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We did it. Oh… yeah, I guess I can tell more. From Portland: Joe, Freed, and Greg (Freed’s Dad) came up the night before. The same night, me and LB were frantically doing last minute adjustments to our bikes. It was a late night and an early morning - less than 4 hours sleep. Yeah… [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on July 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, not so much as a training ride, but an effort to maintain what we have built up for the upcoming Seattle to Portland ride. We hit the same trail as mentioned before, from Lake Forest Park toward Marymoore Park. This starts out as the Burke Gilman Trail but actually turns into the Sammish River [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on July 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
I joined our crew of friends back out at Lake Rossigner for the 4th - a few days after. Good times as always. The photos below pretty much sum up the routine of volleyball and jump in the lake, volleyball then jump in the lake, volleyball then jump in the lake…
This was the first outing [...]
Filed under: General on July 9th, 2007 | No Comments »
I joined my family at Grandma’s beach. She fortunately was able to join us in the festivities and is recovering well from her recent incident. We had a blast up there. The weather co-operated well with play time. I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures, but below is a few that pretty much sums [...]
Filed under: General, The Beach on July 6th, 2007 | No Comments »
We took off from our usual Burke Gilman trail starting point at Lake Forest park. But instead of heading West to Seattle/Fremont (okay, Hales Brewery) we traveled East. This led us past the Bothel Landing, Kenmore, and we didn’t even slow down past Redhook. But now we were technically on the Sammish River Trail. And [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on July 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »
start of the tour
what looks as decorative tiles on the sidewalk above are skylights for the underground
underground was used to store many things, from moon-shine to a banks vault
the ‘no wood’ reconstruction created some beautiful buildings
old wooden water pipes are still in use around the country!
tiolet humor is always funny, but back then… toilets were [...]
Filed under: General on July 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »