Biking to the mall

Today we rode our bikes to the mall. The mall's only about 10 miles away, but all our previous trips there were by car on the interstate so we weren't quite sure how to get there on bikes. However, on our last trip we did see a bike trail paralleling the interstate in places so we just needed to figure out how to get on it and were it went.

After some internet research, we located a page which lets you super-impose all the portland area bike routes onto google-earth, and then get a view from above and fly over the route like a bird at 50 feet. Pretty cool.

So, we loaded up the bike,tag-a-long, and trailer and headed out. The first 3 miles, being downhill, were fast. The next 7 were a slight uphill all the way, so those were much slower. When we got there we ate at Noodle's & Company, mom did some shopping (while Hailey, who's the slowest eater on the planet, finished eating), and then we headed home. When we got back to Oregon City, mom took the kids, the tag-a-long, and the trailer up the elevator while dad took the tandem up the nearest hill (the tandem won't fit in the elevator and the first 100 feet of the hill is too steep for us to pull the kids up).

When we got home Travis took a nap. He was very tired.