Twitter friend posted a link to Outside Magazine's article, Riding an E-Bike is Not Cheating, and I have to say, what it reports matches my experiences.

I don't do a lot of car trips to start - we live by a major transit corridor for reasons - but even so, I absolutely am replacing car trips with ebike trips. I can and do carry real cargo (in one ( Read more... )

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Over the winter and spring, somebody - state, King County, Shoreline, I don't know which - put in sidewalking along NE 205th under I-5, making I-5 at least theoretically traversable in something other than a car. So today I finally biked to Costco to test the route ( Read more... )

So is there really pretty much just no way to get to Country Village in Bothell any way other than driving? Or is SR-527 safer to bike than it looks from its intersection with Bothell Way (SR-522) at Main Street in Bothell?

So apparently this bizarre storm system we've been hit with over the last several days - rainy, strangely tropically humid but also strangely cool - is set to deliver over an inch of rain on Sunday. For the record, that's more than we get in all of a typical July. Apparently, it's the remnants of Typhoon Man-Yi which hit Japan last week. It's just ( Read more... )

Made it to Isengard; that was... interesting. Mmmm, geezer fight! Anyway, I'm following annathepiper at this point, and she's following the Pervy Hobbit Fancier for some reason, hopefully blackmail-related, so I guess I am as well.

Best guess, recalled, week of June 3: 16.7
Best guess, recalled, week of June 10: 17.8
Tuesday's token: 0.2
Wednesday's miles: 14 ( Read more... )

I made two maps of biking from Shoreline to Kenmore through Lake Forest Park Town Centre, showing the two sane routes across I-5 on the north end. They're both a lot of steep downhill going eastbound or uphill going westbound, but this one is less steep in both directions.

Thursday's miles: 8.4
Friday's miles: 9.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1766.6
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Today was nice because it involved some biking and a lot of gardening. I've been neglecting the south garden and need to stop that; a lot of horsetail sprouts reached at least photosynthetic maturity, and that's now how to win. At all ( Read more... )

GENIUS! Nethack Edition.

GENIUS! Doctor Who Edition.

Also, kathrynt found this, which is cool.


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