Slide Show: Boise, Idaho
Thursday, 21 January 2010 07:30
Stephen Allen
 *6p.m.-8p.m. Thursday, January 21*Bardenay Distillery, Boise610 Grove StreetBoise, ID(208) 426-0538 CLICK HERE FOR THE MAPHosted by the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho. Thanks go out to Diane Foote and others at the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho and in Boise for organizing the event! Send all of your friends and relatives in the Western United States over to the Bardenay on Thursday night!
Photo Update: Visit to Telluride, Christmas, Touring in Pacific N.W.
Friday, 08 January 2010 06:35
Stephen Allen
 Here are some photos of the past couple of weeks - cycling in Washington, a visit to Telluride for Christmas, and some skiing with my Dad, George, while at home! To read the story behind these pictures, click here.
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Oregon
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:16
Stephen Allen
 I have now arrived in Caldwell, Idaho, about 30 miles west of Boise. The past ten days or so have been spent on a tour through Eastern Oregon. I now consider Eastern Oregon to be its own distinct region of the world. Sort of the same way that West Virginia is a distinct region of the world. To gain access to Eastern Oregon, I spent four grueling days pedaling east up the Columbia River Gorge, beginning in Vancouver, WA, and ending - at last - in Biggs, Oregon, after crossing the river. It would not have been grueling - and would, in fact have been pleasant - if it were not for the wind. There is a steady easterly wind that runs through the Gorge, which made a 7mph pace into hard, cold work. I spotted a barge or two out on the river, plugging away upstream, and tried to keep up as they chugged along. My efforts were fruitless. They were going about 8Mph. At one point, I checked into a hotel after a 19 mile day, feeling thrashed, frozen, and really excited to be in a hotel. The next day was the day I crossed over to Biggs, made my way to Wasco, and began my Eastern Oregon adventure. One of the purest, loneliest, easiest, best parts of the Seize The World tour to date.
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Back from Christmas
Tuesday, 05 January 2010 04:31
Stephen Allen
I have returned to Portland, Oregon after spending a week or so visiting my home town of Telluride for Christmas. "Wait," you say, - "Home already?" Yes, if I have learned one thing on this bicycle tour, it is that your family is important. In the case of my own family, we typically come together once or perhaps twice each year. Having now realized that my family is important (Thanks Bicycle Tour!) I made an early return home by bus (Thanks Greyhound!) to visit them. This all occurred immediately after my family had all just come out to visit me in Seattle upon my arrival from Japan. The past two weeks have been good from a family and friends point of view. Really, the past month has been good. Ever since I met my friend George in Wuhan, China (and, in fact, my mother not too long before that in Chiang Mai, Thailand!) I have been meeting people on the road on a somewhat regular basis - after George, I met up with Ian in Japan, then my Aunt and Uncle Betsy and David in Seattle, and then an interesting bus journey got me home for Christmas - totally by surprise - to see my parents and my sister once again in Telluride. The trip to get home involved a 27-hour ride on a Greyhound bus which began in Portland, OR. I left my bicycle at a shop in Vancouver, Washington (immediately North of Portland) on Christmas Eve, all bags attached, and they agreed to keep it while I visited home. The encounter was remarkably easy: "Would you be willing to keep my bicycle for a week while I go to Telluride?" "Yes." "Thanks!" Read 1 Comments... >>
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My latest stop on the Seize The World tour was Boise, Idaho. After pedaling through the lonely, barren wastelands that make up Eastern Oregon, I really did not think that there was anything out there to top the experience. But then I rolled into Boise. I went there to give a slide show presentation to the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho, which is headquartered in Boise. As it turns out, the slide show wound up being just one small part of a much greater experience.
