; La Grande was our favorite Oregon town. It has a population of only 13,000 but being the county seat and home of Eastern Oregon University it had a little more polish to it than it’s smaller neighbors and a… Read More ›
Travel
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Cabbage Hill on the Oregon Trail
“Cabbage Hill” it sounds so sweet, like the title of a children’s book. In Eastern Oregon Cabbage Hill is “the big hill” between Pendleton and La Grande. It’s not especially steep at 5 to 6% but it is 8 miles… Read More ›
Hermiston and Pendleton – tires, tubes and cowboys
Hermiston was our first chance to replace our pump, tires, and stock up on tubes. Steve and Scott of Scott’s Bike shop were a great help. They recommended an excellent replacement pump and it wasn’t the most expensive one in… Read More ›
It’s starting to feel like an adventure.
The landscape from the Deschutes River to Boardman Oregon is rugged and dry. It’s sparse natural vegetation seems to consist mostly of Russian Olive and goat head thorns. The area is “cowboy country” with a rolling river, the Columbia, flanked… Read More ›
Flat tire and “Campground Full”
We knew our chance of getting a campsite at the Deschutes campground was slim being that it was labor day weekend but it was still early Friday afternoon so we had some hope. Our hope faded rapidly as we approached… Read More ›
Are we on a bike adventure yet?
The first couple of days from Portland to Hood River Oregon just didn’t feel like the start of a big bike trip. It may have been that we had ridden the route too many times before or that riding busy… Read More ›
Getting Started
Biking cross country again without panniers or trailers. Ultralight? Not really, just traveling simply. I did my first self supported bicycle camping tour in 1973 and since then have cycled thousands of miles across the US and Canada and have… Read More ›
Appalachian Trail
Hiking through Virginia in 2011. To read my trail journal and see some photos of the trip you can go to http://www.trailjournals.com/snakehips/
RAGBRAI 2012
Cycling Iowa with a few thousand friends.
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