I love kicking off the summer with this annual celebration of biking community and zany fun! Fully mobile with River in tow, we rode for a solid four days parading around town, eating bike-themed donuts, splashing in fountains and making music with bells. Video highlights are posted to Bunny's YouTube, and here are some pics:
Every ride cross-pollinates community paths, and on occasion, a cosmic connection surfaces like this story from the stellar bikeportland blog. Pedalpalooza also overlaps with Father's Day. With Goob arriving from D.C., I began fretting over a meaningful gift that could bridge the 3,000-mile distance between us. Fortunately, Pedalpalooza delivered BIG with a noontime bicycle author brown bag that revealed Momentum, a memoir of a father's bike odyssey from Portland to Washington D.C. with his two sons and their grandpa's ashes. Perfect!
For our Father's Day weekend getaway to the coast, I brought bikes for an epic intergenerational beach cruise with Goob and Lilly.
