Hey check it out I just added a new poll so ya'll can vote on it. i know it doesn't include some well deserving circus acts, acro-balance gets an honourable mention, but the poll function can't handle more than 5 choices. maybe when this one is done i'll do a follow up second string favorite circus act. and remember this is a scientific poll so to keep the results fair log on to as many computers as possible and vote as often as you can for your favorite. did you hear about the CNBC presidential poll that got pulled from their cite after ron paul won, all you crazy right-wingers fear not our poll will be fair and balanced anyway you can swing it and will problably stay up for months before we update it.
-jon
ps anyone remember this piece of blog-o-sphere history
20 October 2007
12 October 2007
At last...
...the long awaited blog update that our thousands of daily readers have been waiting for!
Here's my attempt at a quick synopsis of the past bit of time:
Some more rain, some more cold, some more biking south. Started to forget what dry feels like, packing up wet tents in the mornings, unpacking wet clothes, putting on wet socks and shoes. North Bend was filled with adventures: We ate the most delicious pumpkin cheesecake ever, a huge treat considering we had been living largely off of sandwiches...the easiest way to get all of our food groups without a stove...hummus avocado tomato onion sandwiches, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, salami sandwiches, tofurkey sandwiches...
I had an eye infection, for which I finally went to the doctor in North Bend, where they gave me free samples of eye drops and charged me an arm and a leg to look at it through a microscope for 30 seconds and write some stuff down.
We had our first meeting with cops, also in North Bend, since we started this time around, for sleeping in the wrong place. They ran our IDs and let us stay there and sleep. It's amazing how much traveling with bikes full of stuff allows you to get away with. What worked: us with our bikes and gear explaining that we're biking down the coast and needed a place to sleep. What wouldn't work: us without bikes and gear explaining that we just needed a place to sleep. What occasionally works: walking into restaurants, dirty and smelly with helmets on, explaining that we're on a bike trip and we're low on funds and asking for free food. What wouldn't work: someone walking into a restaurant, dirty and smelly, explaining that they are low on funds and need to feed their family and asking for free food. As if we deserve places to sleep and food to eat more than other people because we are "doing something"...
We met George around Gold Beach and caught a ride in his truck to Lilia's parents' place, which is incredibly beatiful and filled with luxuries like beds, showers, kitchen, laundry. We did a little work, a lot of reading, some playing cards, and Lilia introduced me to the joys of tea with milk and honey.
We are currently in Ashland and will be here for the weekend. Dumpstered pastries galore, 4 jars of free almond butter from the Maranatha distribution center, and hoping to hit Dagoba tonight...we also went to Red Robin in Medford, where my childhood dream of becoming the giant red bird was relived.
We saw a movie last night called "In the Valley of Elah". Depressing and powerful, well worth seeing...
After the weekend, back to Lilia's parents' place to do some work for a while before we head south.
Love,
Kaite
Here's my attempt at a quick synopsis of the past bit of time:
Some more rain, some more cold, some more biking south. Started to forget what dry feels like, packing up wet tents in the mornings, unpacking wet clothes, putting on wet socks and shoes. North Bend was filled with adventures: We ate the most delicious pumpkin cheesecake ever, a huge treat considering we had been living largely off of sandwiches...the easiest way to get all of our food groups without a stove...hummus avocado tomato onion sandwiches, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, salami sandwiches, tofurkey sandwiches...
I had an eye infection, for which I finally went to the doctor in North Bend, where they gave me free samples of eye drops and charged me an arm and a leg to look at it through a microscope for 30 seconds and write some stuff down.
We had our first meeting with cops, also in North Bend, since we started this time around, for sleeping in the wrong place. They ran our IDs and let us stay there and sleep. It's amazing how much traveling with bikes full of stuff allows you to get away with. What worked: us with our bikes and gear explaining that we're biking down the coast and needed a place to sleep. What wouldn't work: us without bikes and gear explaining that we just needed a place to sleep. What occasionally works: walking into restaurants, dirty and smelly with helmets on, explaining that we're on a bike trip and we're low on funds and asking for free food. What wouldn't work: someone walking into a restaurant, dirty and smelly, explaining that they are low on funds and need to feed their family and asking for free food. As if we deserve places to sleep and food to eat more than other people because we are "doing something"...
We met George around Gold Beach and caught a ride in his truck to Lilia's parents' place, which is incredibly beatiful and filled with luxuries like beds, showers, kitchen, laundry. We did a little work, a lot of reading, some playing cards, and Lilia introduced me to the joys of tea with milk and honey.
We are currently in Ashland and will be here for the weekend. Dumpstered pastries galore, 4 jars of free almond butter from the Maranatha distribution center, and hoping to hit Dagoba tonight...we also went to Red Robin in Medford, where my childhood dream of becoming the giant red bird was relived.
We saw a movie last night called "In the Valley of Elah". Depressing and powerful, well worth seeing...
After the weekend, back to Lilia's parents' place to do some work for a while before we head south.
Love,
Kaite
03 October 2007
coming from new orleans:
we are looking into getting rides west or perhaps biking west but in an case I plan on finding a couple of volunteer opportunities here in new orleans either with some community bike shops or animal shelters or both. as far as I can tell there is a juggling club at the universities here but these are not well published and are therefore quite hard to get hold of or find anything of substance out about.
perhaps we will will make it into central america but spirits are low with JC breaking spokes and brakes and my self getting flats at a most amazing rate. Currently I am on my fourth back tire and dealing with at least one flat per day, regardless of the tire guard. we will be getting into a bike shop tomorrow and should be able to get maintenance done.
The temperature is quite overwhelmingly warm here and promises to stay so for quite some time. the cicadas are quite insistent on making as much noise as possible and the the ants are particularly aggressive.
Really I have nothing more to say and so will be getting back to my gin and vermouth. more at a future time, best of luck to all who are reading this and so forth.
micah
we are looking into getting rides west or perhaps biking west but in an case I plan on finding a couple of volunteer opportunities here in new orleans either with some community bike shops or animal shelters or both. as far as I can tell there is a juggling club at the universities here but these are not well published and are therefore quite hard to get hold of or find anything of substance out about.
perhaps we will will make it into central america but spirits are low with JC breaking spokes and brakes and my self getting flats at a most amazing rate. Currently I am on my fourth back tire and dealing with at least one flat per day, regardless of the tire guard. we will be getting into a bike shop tomorrow and should be able to get maintenance done.
The temperature is quite overwhelmingly warm here and promises to stay so for quite some time. the cicadas are quite insistent on making as much noise as possible and the the ants are particularly aggressive.
Really I have nothing more to say and so will be getting back to my gin and vermouth. more at a future time, best of luck to all who are reading this and so forth.
micah
02 October 2007
Clever Coons and Raging Winds
It's cold and rainy and windy outside so we're hanging out in the library in Newport, so another quick update:
We rode to Lincoln City yesterday and set up camp at a state park. The three of us cuddled up in a tent and played cards til it was too dark to see. Sometime in the middle of the night, some racoons broke into our food stash! They stole most of it...all six whole wheat bagels, the good seed bread, the last of the Poppycock, the Snickers, the sesame sticks and wasabe peas, the hot cocoa...imagining them running around mischieviously jacked up on sugar makes me feel okay about it...and at least they left the avocado and apple and nori strips.
We left a note respectfully thanking the state of Oregon for their understanding and letting us stay at their park despite our lack of funds. We made it to Newport today and it's so cold and rainy and windy and blustery out, I don't think we're leaving today. We are biking sloooow...up long hills for miles into a wind that seems in a hurry to get north!
Also, Lilia got her first flat tire today since starting in May and the waves are amazing...
Love,
Kaite
We rode to Lincoln City yesterday and set up camp at a state park. The three of us cuddled up in a tent and played cards til it was too dark to see. Sometime in the middle of the night, some racoons broke into our food stash! They stole most of it...all six whole wheat bagels, the good seed bread, the last of the Poppycock, the Snickers, the sesame sticks and wasabe peas, the hot cocoa...imagining them running around mischieviously jacked up on sugar makes me feel okay about it...and at least they left the avocado and apple and nori strips.
We left a note respectfully thanking the state of Oregon for their understanding and letting us stay at their park despite our lack of funds. We made it to Newport today and it's so cold and rainy and windy and blustery out, I don't think we're leaving today. We are biking sloooow...up long hills for miles into a wind that seems in a hurry to get north!
Also, Lilia got her first flat tire today since starting in May and the waves are amazing...
Love,
Kaite
01 October 2007
Nicest Time of the Year
On the road again! I got a ride down to Astoria on Friday where I met Jon and Lilia. Leaving Olympia was more emotional and tear-filled than expected, but this is what I want to be doing right now...
I started laughing hysterically as we were biking yesterday. In conditions that would normally lead me to put on my fuzzy red pants and torn up blue hoodie, cuddle up in blankets with someone I love, drink hot cocoa, tell stories, laugh, maybe watch a movie and make delicious lentil vegetable soup, I suddenly found myself biking up and down hills on the Oregon coast. I could barely see through the rain, the wind was nearly knocking me over. Perfect. The forecast says rain rain and rain for the next days, but yesterday was supposed to be the worst of it, and it should clear up as we get further south. Before I began this journey, Lilia assured me this is the "nicest time of the year" on the Oregon coast. We make sure to laugh about that often.
It has become clear that we will be covering ground slower than we were this summer, at least until we get a bit further south. It's cold in the mornings and hard to start early, it's quite hilly, it's rainy and windy and cold, and it gets dark early. Note to self and others it may pertain to: Biking down the Oregon coast in October=rain+wind+cold+hills.
But in all seriousness, the riding is absolutely beautiful and we continue to have fun and meet awesome people. We stopped at a favorite spot of Jon's and hung out at the beach, hiked around a bit, we stayed with some former Greeners in Astoria and at a collective house of friendly people in Nehalem. Yesterday we were teeth-chatteringly cold and wet once we stopped biking and we wanted to be warm and dry so we gave in and spent what amounted to over half of our current group funds on a hotel room...in doing so, we managed to turn off the rain and bring out the blue skies! ha, but let me tell you, we lived it up...TV, microwave dinners, hot tub, sauna, showers, heat...
We are in Tilamook now (we went to the cheese factory!) and looking forward to more biking and more beautifulness and awesomeness. I'm excited to be on the road again, having new adventures, seeing new places, meeting new people, eating bread and hummus and chips and salsa and drinking $3 wine, just like the old days...
Take care, post comments, send e-mails, etc.
Love,
Kaite
I started laughing hysterically as we were biking yesterday. In conditions that would normally lead me to put on my fuzzy red pants and torn up blue hoodie, cuddle up in blankets with someone I love, drink hot cocoa, tell stories, laugh, maybe watch a movie and make delicious lentil vegetable soup, I suddenly found myself biking up and down hills on the Oregon coast. I could barely see through the rain, the wind was nearly knocking me over. Perfect. The forecast says rain rain and rain for the next days, but yesterday was supposed to be the worst of it, and it should clear up as we get further south. Before I began this journey, Lilia assured me this is the "nicest time of the year" on the Oregon coast. We make sure to laugh about that often.
It has become clear that we will be covering ground slower than we were this summer, at least until we get a bit further south. It's cold in the mornings and hard to start early, it's quite hilly, it's rainy and windy and cold, and it gets dark early. Note to self and others it may pertain to: Biking down the Oregon coast in October=rain+wind+cold+hills.
But in all seriousness, the riding is absolutely beautiful and we continue to have fun and meet awesome people. We stopped at a favorite spot of Jon's and hung out at the beach, hiked around a bit, we stayed with some former Greeners in Astoria and at a collective house of friendly people in Nehalem. Yesterday we were teeth-chatteringly cold and wet once we stopped biking and we wanted to be warm and dry so we gave in and spent what amounted to over half of our current group funds on a hotel room...in doing so, we managed to turn off the rain and bring out the blue skies! ha, but let me tell you, we lived it up...TV, microwave dinners, hot tub, sauna, showers, heat...
We are in Tilamook now (we went to the cheese factory!) and looking forward to more biking and more beautifulness and awesomeness. I'm excited to be on the road again, having new adventures, seeing new places, meeting new people, eating bread and hummus and chips and salsa and drinking $3 wine, just like the old days...
Take care, post comments, send e-mails, etc.
Love,
Kaite
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