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An online cheese and beer tasting: Can it get any better when you’re stuck at home?
I love cheese. And beer’s pretty good, too. So when a box of artisan wedges from Beehive Cheese Company arrived, I was stoked. And the shipment of craft beers from Roosters Brewing Company that followed made me swoon. Both were supplies for an online course I took...
Discovering new murals on today’s bike tour of East Austin
Every few weeks, I set out on two wheels to check out murals throughout downtown Austin. This morning, I knocked out 30 miles and uncovered some art I hadn’t seen before. I wanted to focus my search on East 11th Street, where a giant yellow “Black Artists Matter” was...
Ride like the devil at Purgatory Creek in San Marcos
I’ve been hammering out miles on my road bike for the past few months, riding loops around Northwest Hills and along Shoal Creek, the Violet Crown trail and that cool bike and pedestrian bridge over Barton Creek. Yesterday, though, I left the skinny tires at home and...
I retired my roadie after 16 years – and bought a new gravel bike
I retired a trusty steed this week. I’ve been pedaling a blue Trek 5200 since 2004. Back then, it was a top-of-the-line bike, roughly the same frame on which Lance Armstrong had won his 1999 Tour de France. I was 40 years old when I bought it, paying a whopping...
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