If you missed our recap of our first three legs, Portland to Champoeg State Park, the Willamette Valley and McKenzie Pass Scenic Bikeways, you can catch up before continuing on here. Before hitting the road back home to Portland via the Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeway, we stayed with our friends Dakota and Chelsea in Bend for …
Bike touring
The novelty of cycle touring has been wearing on me for quite some time. The daily packing and movement to a new location has lost its luster. Our bikes, unfit for gravel surfaces due to the composition of my bike frame, our tires, oh, and our dog, force us to stick to the main roads, like …