My scheduled day at Loaves & Fishes for Meals on Two Wheels has shifted from Monday to Friday.  In transition, I did two routes this week.  I’ve been at this for 1 year now.  I still very much enjoy meeting new people and having conversations with folks that have been on my route from the start and checking in on them.

Although the organization title has ‘fishes’ in it, I had yet to delivery any until now.  Makes me think about the midwest and how fish friday is common.  Not so much here in PDX.

Just saw a cool video on the new cycle tracks near PCC downtown.  I ride these every Wednesday and it never fails that usually someone is standing in the bike lane.  When they first came out, I even saw a car parked in it.  Just this week, I had to navigate (read human single track) some dudes standing in the lane waiting to cross the street instead of standing on the sidewalk.

On the Right Track from Mayor Sam Adams on Vimeo.

He also made a video a year ago when Oregon was looking to vote on making stop signs a yield sign for bicycles.  No matter which side you end up on the debate, this video is a good explanation of why cyclists were advocating it.

Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo.

They just added biking directions to google maps this week.  Very cool.

I was looking at directions on how to get to Chris King when I stumbled across this (there’s a Portland Trail Fest thing coming up in April I thought might be cool to check out).

Previously, I’d been using another service, ByCycle Trip Planner, whenever I wanted to go somewhere and wasn’t sure where there would be decent bike lanes or paths.  They only had it Portland… and Milwaukee, Wisconsin ironically – my previous residence.

The service was great but what google has done is even better.  The different suggested routes, help to avoid steep hills, etc.  It’s all very thorough.

They even have a nice YouTube video explaining it:

Maybe next time you need milk and eggs you can ride your bike?