flew to Portland with my wife and three year old son for OSCON 2006 last Sunday. brought my bike with me and poked around on Monday morning. rode up burnside to skyline. ran out of time but still got out on the bike for a bit over an hour in the hottest part of the day.

felt like crap of course but it was cool to ride around portland and up into the hills...

got up today and made it a bit further. went up through the residentail area east of burnside below pittock (sp) mansion up to the top part of burnside. damn there are some gorgeous house up there... wonder how much over 1 million they are... :-)

took skyline north of burnside, found an old dude with a colnago getting set up to ride. he suggested i just go down cornelius pass road, turn around and come back. sounded reasonable but when i got to cornelius pass, i looked at my handy dandy portland bike map (coolest bike map i've ever seen btw) and decided i'd head east, look for st. helens and take the bike lane back to portland proper.

well, there was a bike lane but it was on a fucking freeway (very slight exaggeration). speeds up to 55, two lanes each way and about 50% big rigs in the right lane right next to me... the good part of all that is the tailwind those huge trucks create :-D

pretty nice. saw a lot of folks on bikes and pretty much all of them would wave back to me. that doesn't happen everywhere i ride...

got back to the room before my tutorial at OSCON and the wife had said she's ready to move to Portland! it is pretty nice...