Thursday, August 06, 2009
Oh, Eugene
Kit and I are back from a quick weekend trip to Eugene. I didn't take a single photo. We went down for the 10th annual Blackberry Bramble which is a bike ride that Kit's old bike club (GEARS) does every year. He was there for the first one and so this one was kind of a get together for some of the "old timers". He did the 60+ mile ride and I took off by myself and enjoyed riding up and down the river trails. Oh I do miss the wonderful bike trails in Eugene. (We have some good riding here in the Skagit Valley but it always means packing our bikes on the car and driving somewhere.)
We left Ida at home this trip and stayed in a hotel on the bike path--and right next to the Housing Authority where Kit used to work. Not only could we bike out from the hotel anywhere we wanted to go--it was an easy walk to the Steelhead and North Bank (both brewpubs and favorite hang outs in our Eugene days). Actually we walked all over downtown--so sad--downtown Eugene is now a complete wasteland. Everything out from the core seems to be thriving though.
# posted by Carol Harma @ 1:32 PM 
