Over half of Americans (51%) say they want to lose weight. Weight loss is the number one New Year’s resolution…
2018
Why do bike seats hurt so much?
That is a great question! It is also a complicated question with complex answers which we will tackle one at a time. First, let’s look at the physics of our body on a bike and then examine what makes for a comfortable bicycle saddle or bike seat. Pain Caused by the Bike: Question 1: Are […]
Biking Logging Roads of Montana
It is cold, the last days of October in Montana and a heavy white frost sits outside. I wake to the sounds of my husband in the kitchen as he raises the espresso maker to life. He brings a steaming cup to the bedside, yet I am still unwilling to open my eyes. I hear […]
A Most Frightening Nighttime Visitor
I woke, desperately needing to relieve my very full bladder. The phone tells me it is 5:08. Yet the dawn air, heavy with fog is cold and I hesitated to leave my warm bag. My body is telling me to get up- yet I resist. The restroom is 70 feet from the tent and I […]
Boy Scout Tree Hike
Redwood National and State and states parks are in northern California and are a conglomeration of lands that were established 50 years ago. After more than 95% of the original old-growth redwoods had been logged at the beginning of the 1900’s, three major stands of magnificent trees were purchased by private citizens or privately funded […]
PLAY
I am in northern California, playing. Hiking and biking in the Redwoods, enjoying stunning, dry, late September weather along the seashore. This part of the western seaboard, southern Oregon to northern California is relative difficult to get to. And difficult to travel in. One must pick up the coastal highway (HWY 101) at Coos Bay […]
Cycling the Redwoods
Cycling the Redwoods requires strength, stamina and most of all, fearless fortitude! These roads around Jedediah Smith, Mill Creek, Elk Prairie parks are stunning roads with massive towering trees pressing into the sides. The highway itself whips and curves, dips and dives between the giants, built to be a road to be savored, a road […]
Living a Good life
Oregon has always been a bit ahead of its time. It was one of the first states to require bottle deposits, recycling and construction of bike lanes with new road construction. It is a great state for road touring. There are many rides and bike trails specifically set aside for riders and the Oregon Parks […]
Stumbling Along
For me, biking provides a time to clear my head. There is something about your legs and hands being engaged, rolling down the road, while your mind is free to process thoughts. I know many others feel this same way. Some of my very best poetry and ideas have come to me while on a […]
Garbage
Sometimes when I see pictures like this I get really depressed. As both a sailor, scuba diver and bicyclist, I “see” a lot of the world. When you are on a bike cycling down a road or sailing into port, you are able to see trash and garbage along the road or washed ashore around […]
