Biking Portland's bridges

This morning we, along with around 17,000 other Portland area bicyclists, participated in Portland's "Providence Bridge Pedal 2008" event. Many of the downtown roads were closed to cars and several courses were set up to allow bicyclists to cross numerous downtown bridges. We did the "6 bridge family ride" which had us go on a 14 mile ride around downtown Portland and cross 6 of the dozen or so downtown bridges.

At times the road was jam-packed with so many bicyclists that we had to come to a complete stop, but usually we could move along with relative ease. Travis always wanted to go faster, but doing so was usually not possible given the number of bikes. There were a lot of trailers being pulled on the family ride, but we only saw one other tandem\tag-a-long\trailer combination.

The weather was pretty good. It was overcast when we started (9:30) and partly cloudy when we finished (around 11:30). The kids had a pretty good time, and took pretty long naps this afternoon to recover. Pics are below.