TCI Friday – Hype
The primary rule of storytelling: Make it interesting.
I’m reminded of that as I laugh at its folly on our recent visit to ride the Weiser River Trail in…
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TCI Friday – Rail Trails
There’s just something about bridges that send my imagination into overdrive.
Absolutely nothing in the woods will lift my spirits more than coming upon a wooden…
TCI Friday – Bike Shops
Ahh, what can I say? There’s just something about bike shops, am I right?
I’m guessing most of you probably drifted off there for a moment or two, savoring fond memories…
TCI Friday – Revelations
Darrell Waltrip first introduced me to the saying that, sadly, fits me better than OJ’s glove: He don’t know what he don’t know!
When it comes to bikes, that’s more true…
TCI Friday – Inside or Out?
There’s a lot to be said about not fitting in, about being able to view life from the outside, rather than the inside. Sometimes you realize the inside is, indeed, a safer…
TCI Friday – Gorge Physics
Few joys can match riding your bike East on the Columbia River Gorge Historic Highway Trail.
The Gorge is glorious for its stunning views as well as notorious for its…
TCI Friday – Smoke
My older brother Tom and his buddy Gary took a Twilight Zone/Stephen King approach to big brotherhood with me since, of course, Tom spent six years as the lone little bro to…
TCI Friday – Loyalty
Excuse me for a moment while I plop my ass in my rockin’ chair on the front porch, scratch my five-day facial growth and speak to the concept my generation calls…
TCI Friday – Old Man on the Porch
Following up on previous discussions that clearly classify me as a closet curmudgeon, let me assure you that I have embraced the future on occasion.
As marketing…
TCI Friday – Mysteries
As usual the temperature climbs toward triple digits as I find myself in the foothills of Oregon’s Blue Mountains climbing a paved road with high prairie views that stretch…