Where I've Been

A short catalog of the different bicycle tours that are chronicled on this blag, and a few that aren't.

Eugene, OR to Boston, MA

This was the trip that motivated me to start this blag, as a way of keeping in touch with my family and friends during my travels. Just over 5,200 miles in 97 days of leisurely travel during the summer of 2009, ending with a week of touring the East Coast with my band from Seattle. You can read about my experiences here.


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Portland, OR to Missoula, MT

I used my sister's college graduation in Missoula as an excuse to explore the Columbia River Gorge, the Lochsa Wilderness Area in Idaho, and the rugged Mission Mountains of western Montana, before looping back to eastern Washington to visit a place my heart still calls home. Just under a thousand miles. Read about it here.


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Eugene, OR to Glacier National Park, MT via BC, Canada

A trip to go visit my sister at her summer job in Glacier National Park in Montana, following a circumlocutory route through British Columbia, including Vancouver Island. This was also a rather ill-informed and misguided attempt to follow the Trans-Canada Trail (my bike was not set up for the ardors of off-road trails). About 1400 miles in all. Read about it here.


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North Cascades, Olympic Peninsula, and Pacific Coast

This was my first long (more than 200 miles) bicycle trip, in the summer of 2008. It took me from my home in the rural mountains of eastern Washington, across the state, around the Olympic Peninsula and down the Pacific coast to Eugene, just in time for the Oregon Country Fair. Just over 1,000 miles in all.



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Northwestern Montana Loop

This was the very first overnight bike trip I ever took in my life, in the spring of 2006, when I lived just outside of Spokane, relatively nearby. A huge debacle, with severely underestimated mileage due to poor maps, not enough food, and an impassable mountain pass buried under several feet of snow with no way 'round but through. A humbling experience, but one that would spark a passion that promises to burn as long as these two feet will move me.


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Eugene to San Francisco

A quick jaunt down the Oregon and California coasts, with ample time for frolicking on beaches and in redwoods (literally).


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