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Biking From Portland To San Francisco: Logistics for Non-Bikers
How two non-bike people planned and made the journey.
Cory Howell Hamada
Oct 1, 2020


Day 22: The Feeling That We'd Actually Made It
The City sprawled on the other side of the Bridge.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 23, 2020


Day 21: Onto The City Streets
Where, in all this, was the bike path?
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 22, 2020


Day 20: Beautiful and Challenging and Wonderful and Tragic
And suddenly, we were back.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 21, 2020


Day 19 (Part 1): If They'd Ever Be Able To
We just needed to leave. We just needed to put distance between us and this place.
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 20, 2020


Day 19 (Part 2): In The Last Rays of Sunlight
I first saw Bernadette dancing in the parking lot of the Thai restaurant.
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 20, 2020


Day 18: A Moment To Take It In
When we looked up, we realized we could see the stars.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 19, 2020


Day 17: Go With Caution, Go With God
Somehow, we’d come all this way without any trouble with the bikes.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 18, 2020


Day 16: How Remote It Was
The uphill didn’t seem impossible, but the downhill did.
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 17, 2020


Day 15: It's Stopped Surprising Us
At some point we’d gotten used to riding on back roads.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 16, 2020


Day 14: Inaccuracies of the Internet
The Internet is a pervasive force, something we believe reflects truth. We believe what is online is reality.
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 15, 2020


Day 13: With So Little You Can Do So Much
It’d been a week since Cory actually had the space to practice his headspins.
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 14, 2020


Day 12: Corona Closures
We were speaking through plastic.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 13, 2020


Day 11: A Calm Reminder
I’ve come to accept that being on a bike tour means being perpetually sore.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 12, 2020


Day 10: A Slow Lull Below Us
There was no wifi, and with no wifi, we had no map.
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 11, 2020


Day 9: Crossing Halfway
If it hadn’t been for the signs, I wouldn’t have known we crossed over.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 10, 2020


Day 8: A Thick Haze
“This doesn’t look good.”
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 9, 2020


Day 7: Another Matter Entirely
We woke to the smell of smoke.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 8, 2020


Day 6: Through Ice Cream and Common Identity
The parking lot was filled with cars, families streaming out of their vehicles to enter Face Rock Creamery...
Lilly Sedaghat
Sep 7, 2020


Day 5: How Quickly The Lines Change
Somehow, we just couldn’t keep from being in motion.
Cory Howell Hamada
Sep 6, 2020
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