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It's been a cool, damp spring and the flowers appreciate it. It's just started raining again now. I've ridden this route a lot, but it was very pretty today. Now out to turn off the sprinkler system.

I'm beginning to think that there is no shoulder season anymore for the Oregon Coast. I barely was able to get a campsite in the middle of September before the camping mania got going good. Of course, there is always room for bikes in state parks. Here is a video series still in progress...

I haven't been following it. During my exile--I am a born and raised Warshingtonian, I lived at about 6000 feet in N. AZ. It hit 90 something degrees and what was hard about it, was that lakes were rare, and unlike here, you couldn't go much higher in elevation to get out of it. Of course...

Actually, my part of E. Warshington is quite lush and wet this spring. It's a banner year for wildflowers. Drove south last week and the wheat looks great. If they can survive the fuel and fertilizer costs, I predict that there will be lots of new pickups in farm country after harvest--unless...

I take my little "house" with me. I go places where there is no motel. I'm more secure in my trailer and comfy. It was a godsend when Covid erupted, I only had to stop for gas and groceries. I travel with a dog, and that can limit lodging choices. I'll stop when it becomes cost prohibitive...

I put it out on the Gazelle owner facebook page. Somebody is trying to contact the seller.

On my first trip hauling it to the wet side of the state, I wrapped the display in a baggie. It got wet from condensation. I quickly took it off. I talked to the Rad folks prior to buying my bike and they said rain would not hurt it, it was made for that. However, water spraying up from...

I'd say this bike has been well doused a few times. If a bike can't handle rain, I don't want it. Maybe it's time to go back to acoustic? I've been caught out in rainy weather quite a bit. Fair weather stuff doesn't cut it. Note also that this is inland so no salt problem either.

My 2017 Radmini was riding in the uncovered bed of my pickup, and was naked as a jaybird when I drove through a carwash style frog strangling rain storm. It was heavy enough to cause flash flooding. I even had to pull off the road and wait a while for it to end. Unloaded the bike this...

I lived on the Central Oregon Coast for a few years and drove the highway several days a week between Waldport and Florence. I would not be comfortable riding a bike on it. In the Sea Lion Caves area, when driving, one has to be careful of RVs which may be piloted by folks who are...

Yes it is. I wouldn't want to ride on it though. Too many bus sized RVs with amateur drivers.

Just got this via facebook. I wonder if there will be lots of competition for the plug ins? I can't see myself riding on the interstate either. It would be good to have them on some of their lesser used (by cars) biking highways instead but, it's a start. Oregon adds plug ins.

Result of this morning's ride. It was marked down to half price because as of tomorrow, it expires. The bird was huge and it will take two batches to cook it all. This picture was a try out of a camera that was lost for six years. I found it yesterday and the batteries were corroded so I...

The wet spring has made for a great show of wild flowers on this side. I've got some domestic flowers that I've never seen before popping up in the no man's land of my place. Now, off to bike to the store as I have a hankering for a chicken to cook.

Well, I guess I'll have to stay out of North 40 then. I like their garden plants and they are cool about me parking my bike in the store.

It's got to be a national approach to keep little Johnny from simply buying a gun in Idaho. There lies a very big problem.

i grew up amongst hunting guns. My dad got me a 22 when I was ten and then a shotgun. I used to be a darn good shot. I tell the He Men Gotta Have a Military Rifle That Shoots A Zillion rounds, that they must be very terrible shots and should be out shooting targets more so they wouldn't need...

How can that be when I'm riding on some very dusty and dirty roads? Dust is a problem. Plus, the chainguard is made out of plastic and the part that covered the little window? area broke so it was duct taped on.

I have had a Gazelle Arroyo for 2.5 years now. It's been a blast and very sturdy. I think I've ridden it where it probably isn't designed to go and it keeps on going. The bad? It had a chain guard on it that made it hard to do chain maintenance. That has been removed. I've been told to NOT...

I found a road on Google maps that I'd never been on so had to go check it out and yep, it was a road and it was there. The wind came up and I paid homage to weather superiority by using Turbo for the last mile. Once again, I was having to pedal down the last hill due to the wind. Anyway, I...