Review: McKenzie River Mountain Resort

Overall summary: Only go here if you want to truly know what the word ‘inhospitable’ in the Hospitality Industry truly means. The owner of this establishment was rude, defensive, and worst of all – knowingly endangered my sister and I which led to physical harm. Stay away!! I purchased the “Escape to McKenzie River Mountain…

Livin’ the Good Life

So for the final weekend of having a thyroid gland, I decided to be a big roller and take my sister and I on a biking/hiking/kayaking trip at the McKenzie River Trail. Check it out – Rated #1 for having the best bike trails in America!! We’ll take lots of pics – I’m super excited.…

Product Review: Jamis Citizen

High level summary: I hate this bike So while in Massachusetts visiting my family, I rented bikes for my friend and I. I could have rented the lovely Specialized StumpJumper, a $1700+ bike, for $50 per person, or a Jamis Hybrid, a $300+ bike, for $25 per person. I made a huge mistake in getting…

Carma-Bikah-Geddon

So this is actually old news for anyone living in Los Angeles, but I thought I’d post this for the non-Angelinos. There was recently an event in Los Angeles lovingly referred to as Carmageddon. Essentially, one of our main highways that runs North/South on the west side of Los Angeles was completely shut down, encircled…

Pervasive Pinkness

For a sport still dominantly inhabited by men, there is a helluva lot of pink in cycling. I think it’s partly due to the TMobile telecom team and their fabulous fuschia kits. While perusing cycling related stuff the other day, I stumbled across the following three items. Although I’m not a huge fan of Specialized,…

Ring a Ding!

So last week people celebrated the day I was cut out of my mother’s body. It really should be a celebration for my mom, who not only had to gestate and birth me, but then put up with me for 18 years. One of my fabulous readers-turned-friend gave me some birthday gifts! I just recently…

Random Thoughts for the Day

So not only is my life extremely interesting, but pretty darn humorous as well.* Here are some putterings from the past two days: –The most dangerous part of my commute is passing the McDonald’s. People swerve across several lines to cut across the bike lane and into the drive through. Then on the other end,…

Bike Lock #FAIL

So for all my griping about bike theft and posting videos about how to lock your bike, I realized today I am a major hypocrite. This is the ONLY bike lock I own. That’s it. And it’s already been chewed/rubbed in half. This is the worst kind of bike lock – one quick snip and…