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Sad is the word, alright. This morning at least there’s cause for some optimism as the election outcome is becoming clear; there are undoubtedly dark days ahead though. There were destructive rioters downtown running amok and breaking windows two nights back, and Gov. Brown has to call in the National Guard. It weeks like it will be along time before the city feels normal again.
4 years agoI think today's post is in the finest tradition of cycle blogs - documenting the cultural/economic nature of a place, and the writer's reaction to it. Unfortunately what you documented is profoundly saddening to us, your friends watching from North, and everywhere else in the world.
Most likely, Grampies will never actually enter the US again. But I must say, the last time on the way to Seattle and walking in a Walmart it felt much more like a Rainbow Coalition than a right wing dictatorship. Maybe we can all just cling to the very narrow blue rim down the coast. So I just pulled "Bicycling the Pacific Coast" by Spring and Kirkendall off the shelf and blew away the dust.
Yes second Tricia's wishes. It's certainly hard to conceive that 68 million people in your country are that self interested or living on a completely different planet. But it is looking hopeful and I think Biden will do it. Here's hoping and that this may be a turning point. As you note there is still so much beauty when you look in the right places.
4 years agoWe wake up to a third day of trolling the news networks. Then I read your post and we both feel incredibly sad. In the early seventies we lived in Portland (Beaverton actually). Ken was working for Albert Starr, a pioneer in artificial heart valves, and although exhausting the work was extremely stimulating. Living in the suburbs with small children I found my neighbours and those at the school and preschool inclusive and kind. Our youngest son was born there and when we came to be discharged from hospital Albert had picked up the bill. The opportunity came for Ken to have a job at St Vincents Hospital and we were torn eventually deciding to return home to one here. I find it so hard to reconcile my personal experiences with the ugliness I am reading and hearing now. Actually I feel not a single person I know in the USA would be sufficiently brain dead to vote for the psycopath
We both feel for you and more than anything hope that once this ugly election is behind you there will be healing
Tricia and Ken
Yes!
4 years agoABC!
4 years agoNice! Goose Hollow? Alphabet District?
4 years agoGotta love the fantastic palette of colors sweetgums have in the fall!
4 years agoYes, there is a place to stand on the other side - the drawbridge, about fifteen feet below.
4 years agoCool photo! She planned her outfit well .. to not only have the interesting head piece, but also to be the only person not wearing dark muted colors.
Also .. looks like the photographer is sitting on the wall, but there must be a place to stand on the other side?
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment! I sure hope we get a chance to meet someday!
4 years agoRelieved to read you two made it home safely. Here's hoping the world turns to a more positive future in the coming months and that we all have more cycling adventures written into our futures...
4 years agoMaybe you should count the hundreds of places where you have been and no disaster ensued... Or maybe disasters are everywhere...
4 years agoI feel confident that we’ll be back sooner than later. Bologna looks like a great city to begin or end in a tour in.
What I’d like to know though is why we so often leave disasters in our wake. The day after we leave Cinque a Terre they had those devastating floods back in 2008. Not long after we left the big island in Hawaii in 2018, it was shattered by a massive eruption on Kilauea. Stromboli, Spring of 2018, the same story. We leave Oregon this summer, and horrific fires ensue. We set sail for Ancona, and Covid starts overwhelming Croatia; and yesterday there was an earthquake in Zadar. I expect to hear news of a 1,000 year flood on the Po before long.
Still want us to bike up your way?
This morning it looks like he’s a winner alright, so thank god for that. I’m anxious to see how quickly people can start to disarm and let life return to something normal. You’d like to think that folks Just would be exhausted by all the craziness of the last four years and ready to get on with life.
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