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We heart Boise! Thanks for the great time. Cheers to the gnome – pictured here thanks to The Idaho Statesman. Good slow stuff.

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Posted under Portland.
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And by warm I mean hot, super hot, like HOTT! hot.

But the good news is that after spending 35 hours working out in the direct sun, I have a killer suntan, and I think it makes me look pretty. and finally ready for summer swim wear. Up until now I have been feeling a little pasty on the arms, and my farmers tan had yet to fully blossum. After Portland all that has been taken care of, my neck is carryng a nice tomato hue and my arms are looking like the shell of a coconut, dark brown and woody, cracking in a few spots. And my legs, whooo boy. As if you didn’t know, i love the jean shorts, they pretty much are my favorite summer uniform and they are cut off just a few inches above the knee, and that is the spot where my legs turn from tooth paste to a rich mahogany. This is just the summer weather I needed.

The show was great, people ducking from one shady spot to another to see music and side shows. Visiting me and the other carnies in the bike pit, saying hello, and asking Pete how is mustache stays so coifed and stylish (its a mystery, I think that he uses cement, but that is unconfirmed).

Anywho… thank you Portland, it was a real good time and all of us here around New Belgium HQ are indebted to you.
-Loving You,
Juice Box.

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Post ‘em here!
We had a most fabulous time–hope you did, too.

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Posted under Seattle.
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I am taking steps toward the edge. Sanity is the luggage I am unable to fit into my car anymore. Sure, I am tired of paying exorbitant prices for gasoline, but it’s the guilt and futility I experience when trapped in my car that fuels by ire for automobiles.

When, in the past, I had chosen to commute to work in the car, I felt dread at having to sit behind the consuming engine at stop signs and “politely” wait for cell-phone drivers to acknowledge the fact that they were behind the wheel of a car, not, in fact, sipping a venti macchiatto while ordering a new pair of Land’s End Mocs.

Now on bike (mostly) my mind wanders far away from (ironically) mind-mocking other solo drivers, floats up to the foothills, on trails, down shady secondary streets with people in their front yards enjoying life. In the past week, on a commute back home from work, I thought for a moment my speed was so great that it had made my eyes water. Turns out the wind in my ears, smell of fresh-cut grass, and lack of a rumbling monstrosity chugging me home had “thought” me to a rock on the shore of the ocean - wind blasting through me, the sun sinking, orange and warm. It was that sweet tear of joy, thanks, bike!

Take my car, please! Leave me no more chances to spoil my commute, my day, my life.

Brook

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I have been travelling enough to put me way behind on some updates. Truckee and Seattle were awesome…more to come on those points.

The real story is that I will be doing an on air radio interview this Sunday! the Show is called Southwest Blend, and you can tune in right here:

http://www.southwestblend.com/Champagne_Sundays/mix8-10-08.htm

Interview starts at noon MST. If you want to hear me babble on about the TDF and what you will see, do, or can expect, as well as why on earth we are crazy enough to run around the U.S. in the first place…tune in.

It will be like the 700c club, which is way better than the 700 club. We have a c.

Cheers from the road. Keep the rubber side down

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Here’s some wise words from the Executive Director of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, the group that does so much to make sure that the Tour de Fat in Seattle goes off without a hitch, and is thanked for that graciously with your beer dollars.

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