yep! I’ll get you the dates. mid July
It was a taxidermy demo at the Nature Museum. There was a whole summer festival thing going on. We just met Nature Cat and checked out the taxidermy collection and demo, but there was way more to do! Totally worth repeating my entire 14mi commute immediately upon arriving home from work. It was kind of a magic ride, tail wind both ways what!
Roli is weird, he loves taxidermy, but doesn’t really care about looking at live animals at all.
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Totally normal. I did work study at the Burke museum in Seattle and got to help clean and catalog specimens. One of the post docs I worked with created stuffed squirrels for her toddlers to play with.
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This museum rules. It has a vast taxidermy collection primarily from the Chicago region and a huge butterfly room and also places for little kids to bounce off the walls for a while
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Rainy group ride. We’re up to 5 riders which is pretty alright in a town with 9,000 people.
Took an abandoned road we haven’t taken before that leads down to some 4 wheeler trails outside of town. Tried to take a picture but it was pretty shaky.
Dropped my chain on the descent into town. Almost ran into a car parked on a tight corner but managed to ride the hill out. Chain is fucked though.
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quick overnight to saturna island. my favorite of the southern gulf islands and i’ve been there enough that trips take zero planning other than looking up the ferry schedule.
here’s some goats and mt rainier visible just to the right of the trees on the left
my house is at the foot of one of those distant lumps
was really into these sandstone cliffs
used that cheap rei salsa bag for the first time, worked great
2015 iphone not doing mt baker justice here, some kind of optical illusion was making it look super close and massive on the way home
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what pants are those
Not sure. Club Ride maybe?
@owen the Stooge is looking great!
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I love their stuff. Shame they stop at size Large, or I’d own one.
next run will apparently have small and xl sizes
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This post made me miss Andy Squirrel 
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The traveling beer garden was at the mountain bike trails. Not pictured is the car doing donuts in a baseball field and kids riding horses. Summer in Philly is the best.
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You said it bro
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Four day trip from my front door to the top of Dollarhide Summit and back. Lots of climbing, wildlife, and rivers.
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I don’t think I’ve ever posted in this thread and haven’t read it in like a year or 2, don’t know why, but I finally feel like I went for A Ride so here goes
Weird day with the ass end of a tropical storm rolling through town
Stop 1
At Stop 2, the guy fiddling around at the rack here commented on my colorful bike and asked what the frame was, then told me it was a “classic” when I said it was an LHT 
Stop 2
After Stop 2, I was about 2 blocks away from Austin’s HBCU. In my nearly 9 years here I had never been on campus. I wanted to get a quick look at this 100 year old building that resembles an architectural style from the Midwest that I enjoy. Well I got my picture but was quickly told by campus security that it’s a closed campus and was shooed away. So for my Juneteenth holiday I got kicked off the campus of an HBCU. ANYWAYS…
Third and final stop, we miss you Brooks
OK that’s my ride, I got rained on a lot but had a pretty good time
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i went for a ride. it was pretty good. it would have been perfect if not for the bike i was on:
i would rather ride a Walmart bike. but I’m in Amsterdam pretty far from the city and this was what my hotel had to offer. i thought about riding to a better bike rental place but that was too much work. so there i was on my wood piece of shit bike.
here is the “headset” which legitimately might not have had bearings
anyways, it was pretty hard to steer because of that! the two speed igh liked to shift right at a nice comfy cadence too so i was either going too slow or too fast at any given moment.
however, that was the only bad part. i found this sign for Dutch neighborhood watch. im still not sure what that ball looking object is
a block later I found this guy doing his neighborhood watch job really well
i had to pick a destination so i picked the Anne Frank house. i didn’t go inside but here is the giant museum
this is her neighbor who i was actually able to photograph without a million people in the way
then i went for a wander and ended up in the tulip museum which was actually very great. they had some very funny political cartoons from the time of the tulip mania.
on the way home in the big park they have this cute boat rental thing
then i was fighting a headwind on my stupid wood bike to ride back to the airport and was very grumpy so no more photos
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