Halfway to Detroit Here’s how it happens. I wake up in the morning and put on a fairly almost-brand-new pair of Sidis. I lash a temporary home to the back of a heavy steel bike with a long wheel base. I pedal out of Portland. Along the way, I learn how to start the heavy bike from a [...]

I’m antsy. It’s true. As last year kicked my ass like you wouldn’t believe, it also gave me a crazy case of cabin fever. Pow! Biff! Bang! Crazymaking. I stormed into 2010 with one mission: get the hell out of Portland as often as humanly possible. It’s not that I don’t love it here, it’s just that sometimes my gypsy [...]