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I like to ride my bicycle - for long distances. I have earned the California Triple Crown and finished the Furnace Creek 508. My goals include qualifying for RAAM and ...(read the blog to find out). "The bicycle has a soul. If you are able to love it as it deserves, it will give you emotions you will never forget." "Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride."
"The important decisions in my life I make while out riding my bike."
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong
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Saturday, October 25, 2003
Today, we rode with the Salem Bicycle Club to the Buena Vista Ferry. This was the last weekend of the year that the ferry will operate: it is closing for the winter. But the today's weather was nothing more than fantastic! The skies were clear, the tempters was in the low 70s and the riding was good. Took a few photos which you can see here. We took River Road south out of Salem. This is a quiet road running along the east bank of the Willamette River. Due to the steepness of the bank, there are few homes along the road. As I came around a turn in the road, the heard the distinctive noise of a chainsaw. Now I grew up with chainsaws and I know what sounds like. My father was not a logger, but we had enough land that he could meet our family's fireplace needs with the wood that my father would cut up with his chainsaw. I looked up and saw someone using a chainsaw to clear the wild blackberrys along side of the road. Who needs a weed wacker if you own a chainsaw?
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