VV goes to Portland! [pt. 1]

Yours truly in my fish dress from Barcelona riding along the Esplanade. [Not as good as these self portraits as Dave and Meli.]


Summer in PDX is actually hot! This cyclist stops in the center of downtown to take an important phone call.


Flip flops are the tell-tale sign of summer.


This pic was the first one that I snapped when I got off the light rail in downtown. Fantastic green cruiser displaying that casual Pacific NW style!


Portland ladies carry a certain casual elegance.

you lookin' at ME?

When cyclists look at me like this when I'm taking a pic of them, it makes me want to cower behind my camera and apologize, but instead I usually smile and tell them how awesome they look! What a most excellent pannier she's got, and those clog-like shoes, if I'm not mistaken, could be Dansko, the pretty and practical footwear line from Denmark, no less.

xtra fun!

Amid the commuters one weekday morning, this urban mom was out for a morning spin with her kids, wearing flats and skinny jeans. Looks like the little boy is having extra fun on the xtracycle!


The two little ones look like vogueurs in training--he in a skull-patterned hoodie, she in a flowing red and white heart-patterned skirt and pink clogs.


Here's another urban mom with her son wearing a robot t-shirt on a three-wheeled scooter.


That's it! Show by example how fun and safe two-wheeling (or three-wheeling) can be, by cycling in the city with the kiddies!