eight mile bike ride

 I have a new co-worker who lives about five miles away and yesterday I rode my bike down to his house so we could carpool into work.  It was a slow ride, but thanks to the Portland bike map I found a route with very limited car traffic, but I did finally give up and walk the bike up the side of Mt. Tabor.  Hopefully I'll be riding my bike a lot this summer, but I'll get a set of "slick" tires which will be a lot nicer to use on pavement.