Another year, another love letter to my now teenage mamabike! Although maybe she needs a better descriptor since she doesn’t do any kid toting these days. (Ideas welcome.) She’s not ready to retire, though. I carry oodles of non-human stuff with my Big Dummy–mostly weekly groceries, but those tiny, mundane trips are still the best!
The most exciting “groceries- plus ” trips I took with the the Big Dummy over the past year were beginner-friendly bike camping trips for The Street Trust’s WeBike program that inspires trans people of all genders, gender non-conforming people, Two Spirit, and women (both trans and cis) to incorporate a bike into their lives. This year we took two trips–first west to Stub Stewart State Park and then east to Oxbow Regional Park. These are the only two true beginner-friends campgrounds near Portland, but I’m
I’ve turned into a bit of a cargo hog. I brought nine campers on the Stub Stewart trip and carried all the food, some extra tents, and seven camp chairs.