It snowed all day yesterday and into the night. Today it was pretty windy, too. I don’t know what Greg the Weatherman would say, but this might be the closest we will come to a blizzard. We have lots of snow for sure even if it’s not a blizzard and every day I go walking … Continue reading "Blizzard by our standards"
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Now that Greg has returned from his successful bicycle tour, I thought I should welcome him home with a photo of one of his favorite subjects. Greetings from the land of many porta-potties! (Photo taken at the start-finish line for tomorrow’s Santa Rosa marathon.)
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Janet is right. Northern California suffers from a relative dearth of brick buildings. Why? Earthquakes. Brick buildings tend not to stand up to earthquakes too well. In the big 1906 quake, Santa Rosa suffered proportionally more damage than San Francisco. Practically every brick edifice in town collapsed. Nowadays, most of the brick walls around here … Continue reading "One Brick at a Time"
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Today’s agenda: 1. Yard work and chores 2. Short bike ride 3. Chores and yard work Here I present photographic evidence of only the second agenda item. Read more at Bill Bikes
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If anyone needs an 18-month calendar, let me know. http://www.willowcreekpress.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=01974
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Just doing errands on my bike this Sunday morning, all in preparation for our move, but it felt so good to be on my bike that I did a little extra cruising and had even thought to take my camera along. So here are pictures of two portable potties set up for workers on construction … Continue reading "More Potty Pictures"
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Along the Greenway today, I spotted another wheeled potty in a vineyard for Greg’s challenge. Em noted that when detasseling corn, she was afforded no porta-potty. Perhaps the presence of portable johns in vineyards is simply a reflection of the changing world in which we live. On the other hand, by the time corn requires … Continue reading "Another wheeled potty in a vineyard"
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2 Raleighs take a break at the North Fork of the Vermilion river east of town A surprisingly graffiti-free bridge railing View east, upstream, spring struggles to arrive in Vermilion County, Illinois A somewhat precariously tilted Garceau* at the North Fork Conservation Club The club is located at an abandoned gravel pit along a valley … Continue reading "North Fork Garceau"
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Although I hike it year-round, I don’t get up to Annadel State Park on two wheels much in the winter due to wet, muddy trails. Many of the mountain bikers around here love rolling through that squishy stuff and emerging with bikes and selves caked in clinging mud. It tends to wreck the trails, it’s … Continue reading "Ilsanjo"
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It was sunny and NOT windy early this morning so we decided to get out early. Beat the tourist crowds and the wind….a win/win as they say.
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I’ve been focused elsewhere lately, so I missed the opening shot when the Great Portable Restroom Challenge was issued. It wouldn’t have mattered much though – I don’t recall seeing one here in Sicily, or feeling the need for one since we spend so much time on deserted roads with plenty of stone walls or … Continue reading "So here’s the scoop"
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Towable porta-potty parked in vineyard off Stanly Crossroad in Napa County, June 2016. Note attached hand washing station. I briefly considered hitching up this beauty to the Long Haul Trucker and towing it home to Santa Rosa. Ace support crew would have been so proud of me!
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Why settle for a stinky Hiltz when you can enjoy a clean garceau? Harrump! We resemble that!! A Garceau adorns a building site south of town — there are woods right over there ———> The Mother Lode! An assembly of impeccably clean Hiltz Garceaus The Hiltz Honey Wagon Not so impeccably clean One last look … Continue reading "Gobs of Garceau’s"
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Here we are in the beer garden at Schleissheim. We took Easter Sunday off from packing and running around like crazy getting ready for the move and cycled for a morning coffee in the beer garden in Schleissheim. This beer garden loo is rather big and was clean, but I don’t think it’s connected to … Continue reading "The Great Portable Restroom Challenge"
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Here’s my entry for the Porta potty challenge. This one I discovered in the Barrossa Valley, South Australia a few years ago on a cycle and it would be used by the farm workers out in the fields. Imagine if they unwittingly hooked it up and drove off whilst someone was inside with their pants … Continue reading "Porta potty challenge"
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The bank of clouds to the east stayed there all day — and so did 20-30mph winds Low pressure system may have become stalled by the Appalachians Near the High School baseball field At the softball field Hiltz is the Don’s Johns of N. Vermilion County Winds are to subside overnight, so tomorrow I can … Continue reading "Porta Potty 2"
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So last month, when I rode up into the bush on a short overnight ride, I stayed in an informal camping area. It was just flat, grassy ground in an opening of the forest. This is where I did not get a lot of sleep but got to enjoy some silence and solitude. I took … Continue reading "Could have jumped the gun…."
Read MoreBefore I begin my own restroom hunting, my ace support crew offers these two, the first from backpacking in the Sierra and the second (frame grab from a video) from her recent expedition into the Grand Canyon. Perhaps these explain why I prefer bicycling….
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That’s not a restroom, its a control shed for CSX railroad BUT A few days earlier, there was a portable potty just this side of the building — I thought,how nice of CSX to provide such accommodations for visiting cyclists. (You can vaguely make out the footprint in the gravel) Turns out it must have … Continue reading "Restroom Challenge"
Read MorePortable restroom, portable toilet, porta-john, porta-potty, happy can, gottago, doodie hut, crap cabin, shit shack, kybo, outhouse, Garceau . . . Whatever you call them, you’ve got to admit that portable restrooms are sometimes a godsend for us cyclists. Sure, they’re often smelly and unsanitary beyond belief. Sometimes they contain flies, cockroaches, millipedes, and other … Continue reading "THE GREAT PORTABLE RESTROOM CHALLENGE"
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