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Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 3
Beaver Creek Run Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 It was early afternoon but it seemed much later. The sky was dark and the clouds came right down to the pavement in torrents. Water streamed across every flat surface, cold and black and dirty. When we got to Corvallis we...
Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 2
Beaver Creek Run Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Just before Seal Rock, we turned left onto Beaver Creek Road. We rode several miles up into the hills before we came to the farm where the party was. A steep muddy driveway led from the road into...
Spotted from the truck
Mike and I were out poking around the forest with my dogs Sunday. We found one good chanterelle, some witches butter and a bunch of soggy mush. Snow level in the Columbia Gorge has dipped below 2000'. We stumbled into some...
Winter Traction – The Bacon Tour
These videos are part of a series documenting the 2010 Bacon Tour see them all at Adventure Sidecar on Vimeo We spent the weekend driving on ice in the mountains east of Hood River. Mr. Cob had a two wheel drive Ural with...
Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 1
Beaver Creek Run Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Howard and I had spent all winter working on our bikes. They both had fresh paint and new tires. Howard installed a new magneto in his Triumph and hand fashioned stainless steel fender struts and a sissy bar. I...
Good Morning
10/28/25 6:30 42F (5.5C) Cloudy, calm, dark. Amy is sleeping. The nieghbors rose earlier, rattling the pipes with their morning shower. Outside it looks about the same as yesterday: dry, still dark, some traffic and a few people walking. A bicycle went by...
Good Morning
10/27/25 6:30 46F (7.7C) The city glows through a thin fog, the sounds of Monday morning traffic muffled by thick curtains and 115 year old brick walls of the Hotel Sorrento. A jet rumbles overhead. An ambulance wails up Madison, climbing the steep hill...
Good Morning
10/26/25 7:00 41F (5C) The wind and rain have stopped for the moment, replaced by a light breeze and the soft tapping rattle of water falling from the trees onto leaves already covering the ground. The approaching light has chased away all but the brightest...
Good Morning
10/25/25 5:00 40F (4.4C) Another dark morning. Cloudy with an occasional star shining through the breaks. Yesterday's rain did not amount to much. This morning the deck is dry. ...
Good Morning
10/24/25 7:00 44F (6.6C) Cloudy with rain forecast in the afternoon. My arms no longer hurt from the vaccinations I got Monday. That took a little longer than I expected, but not too bad. Flu, covid, and pneumonia. Still need the second shingles shot. Getting...
