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West Coast Summer 2025, Part Three
July and August 2025 Today’s ride, the second of the tour would be a hard one, climbing to the top of the McKenzie Pass and its summit at 5,200 feet, with1,800 of that to come in just ten miles. It was another warm day, but an early start helped to mitigate some of it as […]
West Coast Summer 2025, Part Two
July and August 2025 Before heading out on the by now familiar four-hour drive to Bend, we stopped for breakfast near the on-ramp to Interstate 5 at Elmer’s, which we’d not been to before but was highly rated on-line. It was a good choice as the large portions promised by the menu were indeed substantial […]
West Coast Summer 2025, Part One
July and August 2025 Returning home from Europe at the end of May we quickly turned around and a week or so later drove north to Oakland for some time there with Jessica, Kris and Gemma before all of us drove to Sonoma to celebrate the wedding of Jessica and James, close friends of the […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part Four
July 28– August 13, 2024 The next morning, we packed up with no small amount of regret, bidding a fond farewell to the Institute pondering future opportunities to return. We stopped in Grants Pass at the Dutch Brothers (a regional coffee chain) kiosk to get some caffeine for the road and then hit the I-5 […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part Three
July 28– August 13, 2024 The next day would be a busy one with an unexpected twist at the end. We would relax at the Institute in the morning and then head into Grants Pass to hit the Josephine County Fair when it opened for the day. Later we would meet Kathy and Tom for […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part Two
July 28– August 13, 2024 We had a quiet weekend after our bowling outing and soon enough Monday morning rolled around and we loaded up the Highlander with Joanna, Jessica, Gemma, and me for the seven-hour drive to Kamp Angst. We’d be embarking on a few long days of driving, and we were all curious […]
West Coast Fall 2023, Part Two
October 10 – 19 The next day, Friday, Kristen, Brian, Joanna, and I took off for Muir Woods National Monument. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, It protects 554 acres of which 240 acres are old growth coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests, one of a few such stands remaining in the San Francisco […]
Cisco Fest 2023 – Portland, Part Two
September 26-28 We continued east a quick ten miles on Interstate 84 to the Bonneville Dam and Cascade Locks complex, a site I’ve visited before and look forward to each time. At the time of its construction in the 1930s it was the largest water impoundment project of its type in the nation, able to […]
Cisco Fest 2023 – Portland, Part One
September 26-28 After our return from Peru, we enjoyed a couple of trips close to home, including one to Oakland to see the kids and little Gemma, got caught up on our bike riding, and generally enjoyed being at home for a stretch. Unfortunately, towards the end of August, I suffered the beginning of what […]
Northern California and Oregon Fall 2022, Part Two
October 13 – 24 Joanna’s experience at the Glass Forge Gallery Tuesday afternoon, before we met Tom at the Bohemian, was fun and enlightening. We drove into Grants Pass from Kamp Angst, and I dropped Joanna off early in the afternoon as she had signed up for a session ahead of time and when she […]
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