pre-moon, day one
The wedding festivities have begun!
You’ll no doubt recall the paper part of the wedding in December. We didn’t want you guys, our friends and family, to miss out, though. We promised a week of Portland-area fun culminating in an honest-to-goodness reception, and it’s time to deliver!
We’ve front-loaded the week with the more hard-core, Scorpio-type stuff. First up was a 20-mile bike ride down Portland’s vaunted Springwater Corridor rails+trails route. Just think: while we were out pounding down miles of trail and enjoying the cold drizzle, most folks were cooped up in their climate-conditioned offices and sitting in their comfy chairs as they poked away at Excel spreadsheets. Suckers!
Actually, only my father-in-law, John, was able to make it today. The rest of the locals found excuses, and the out-of-towners aren’t here yet. Guys, you just got pwned by a 74-year-old man on a folding bike!
Couldn’t have chosen better company, though. I picked John up along the trail at OMSI, where we headed south. We had the trail practically to ourselves, so we could ride side-by-side and chat. You know, guy talk. We flew through the Sellwood Gap (the only segment of the trail not yet completed) and over the brand-new Three Bridges (the official color of the middle one is Tabasco, and we’ll not have you calling it “pink” or “orange,” thank you very much!).
As the weather turned sour-er, we turned south-er at John’s suggestion, so we could pack some whole-grain goodness into our stomachs at Bob’s Red Mill. See, I knew I brought this guy along for a reason!
Duly fortified, we headed west to reconnect with our route and land back downtown.