Views from two wheels

Last Friday, the cupboard was bare of anything I wanted to eat, so I stopped at the Starbucks by my office for breakfast. Posted on the door...

"I don't know who I've been all year. I'm glad you're still here." ~ Alana Matty - "33 (The End)"

When I was shopping for a new car, I zero'd in on the Subaru Crosstrek pretty early on. As I looked into it further, I locked in on the...

Over the last three years through hip pain and hip recovery, I have fallen out of shape and put on weight. Though I have run and biked for m...

Yesterday, leaving breakfast, there was a back-up to get out of the parking lot and onto Gilman Blvd. To my right we're 7 or 8 kids, sta...

I bought my first car 39 years ago. In that span of time I've owned four cars. My guess is that one car every decade is below the nation...

Every time I drive to Portland, I can't help but think of the more winding STP bike route. Flying past the exit signs along the freeway,...

My friend Cherie, who has twisted my arm into biking, then into running , also got me into backpacking.  The summer after I moved back to Wa...

  This photo is from January twelve years ago, and it popped in a nice Facebook memory last week. It is still one of my favorite running pho...

 Three weeks into January seems a little early for a resolution/habit check in, but since it is a 2022 resolution, it is probably a bit late...

Like many of us, I have had a number of nicknames over the years. Fortunately, most have been kind, or at least I have forgotten any mean on...

 I have been in one car accident as a driver. Well, maybe one and a half. It sounds like it is less so today, but "back in my day"...

Just like all the days before: Mornings are the worst. First steps are always the hardest. My recovery from surgery began at my friend's...

As I wrote about in this post and elsewhere, I found out I had arthritis in my right hip at the beginning of 2021. The pain and impact on my...

"You don't strike me as someone who is overly concerned about how his teeth look." This was what someone at my dentist's o...