The girls had a horse riding class at a ranch a mere 20 miles away, up in the foothills. Of course they wanted to go there on bike. We checked out the profile of the trip online. It looked like a...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/12/horsing-around.html
Yesterday, we took a "biking adventure" to the extreme. We've all been thinking about riding the 120 or so miles from the bay area to the Sacramento area to visit Jeremy's parents. Jeremy was hes...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/11/across-dumbarton-bridge.html
Last Saturday, our entire family went on one of our "bike adventures"-- where we take most of a day to ride somewhere far and explore. After much debate, we headed in a general southerly directio...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/11/biking-to-hiking.html
I haven't posted here for a while because I've been torn about whether blogging is a good use of my time. I have kids and a home to take care of (or at least make sort-of not so messy). And altho...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-bikey-things-were-up-to.html
This morning Jeremy took the bakfiets to pick up a cupboard that we found on Freecycle: Later in the morning, the kids and I headed off to the library and park. I've been having trouble f...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/07/carrying-cupboard-and-little-brother.html
This morning, Nathaniel and I headed home from a pediatrician visit via the new Sleeper Ave. to Dale Ave. (over 85) bicycle/pedestrian bridge. It's not a route we need daily, but a few times a mo...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-bicyclepedestrian-bridge.html
Being Sunday, I thought I'd post this poem. A teacher at church shared it this morning and I absolutely loved it-- especially the parts about "delightful long cuts" and "bike secrets". So here ...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/07/tandem-ride-with-god.html
I biked all of about six miles (to swim lessons and swim practice) today-- pulling the trailer on the triple, my way-of-late to carry four kids aged almost 1 to 7. My knees really hurt. With all ...
This morning I had another chat with a cop about my bakfiets... but this time the exchange was, I'd say, positive! After being stopped by a cop in May, I sent off a couple emails and then, recent...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/06/another-chat-with-cop-about-bakfiets.html
Yesterday evening, Jonah and I were out running errands in the bakfiets after dropping the girls off at gymnastics. I decided to pick up food at In-N-Out for dinner. The bakfiets had a few s...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/06/no-bikes-allowed-in-in-n-out-drive-thru.html
While Grandpa was at our house this afternoon, my girls convinced him to make a swing. We found a great rope in the garage, but I vetoed the idea of a simple loop in the rope as a swing seat (vi...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/06/bike-tire-swing.html
Jonah rode a bike for the first time today-- and he just turned 3 last month! I'm so proud :) Kudos also to his older siblings who decided to teach him and to the whole idea of balance bikes. Jo...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/05/jonah-rides-bike-nathaniel-walks.html
This past weekend was full of biking. Saturday morning, Jeremy and Joshua headed (on bike + trailer bike) to Joshua's soccer game and the grocery store. The rest of the crew and I headed out to S...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/05/busy-biking-weekend.html
Today (well, last Thursday... now that I'm finally getting around to finishing this post), was "Bike to Work Day". For the past few years, the big kids have really looked forward to this day. The...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/05/bike-to-work-day-and-stopped-by-cop.html
Last Saturday, we went on one of our little bike adventures. I love the time biking around together as a family. A triple, two kids' bikes, and a bakfiets elicit all kinds of happy waves and lots...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/04/earth-day-festival.html
Chatting with Daniella this evening, I had the following little exchange: Daniella: When I grow up, I am going to buy a bakfiets. Me: Why? Daniella: So I can put my pet dog ...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/03/bike-conversation.html
What's left of the bike... Not my bike, but looked just about like this... My Breezer bicycle was stolen two nights ago. Jeremy rode it to a local high school where he was taking a Chines...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/03/stolen-bike.html
It's been a busy past few weeks. The week before last the children didn't have school and we decided on a whim to head toward Tahoe and play in the snow. There were some vehement complaints abou...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/03/road-trip-and-bike-trip.html
The Saturday before last, we set out on a family bike ride to "somewhere". We ended up at Stanford University-- via our church building (we helped to clean it; everyone takes a turn), a donut sho...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/02/off-to-stanford.html
I snapped a few pictures of bikes on a recent trip to Taiwan. Folding bikes seem to be fairly popular. The bike that I found most interesting was the "folding triple". This bike looked about the ...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/01/bikes-in-taipei-part-1.html
I like my bakfiets because it can hold all these groceries... plus the smiling toddler, plus Toddler's collection of sticks from the park, plus Toddler's blanket, plus the carseat base for the b...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-i-like-my-bakfiets.html
It's been a rough past few days for my kids. The four oldest all came down-- successively-- with a stomach bug. That means I've been driving sick kids around while bringing the healthy ones to s...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/01/towing-bike.html
This evening, my two girls and I rode two miles through the dark to the library. We rode on our Bike Friday Triple. After riding my bakfiets nearly every day, the triple felt both strange and unc...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2012/01/wiggling-along-to-library.html
Here's the biking-related news around here: 1) Yes, those were avocados that the little kids and I collected on a bike adventure last week and they were yummy! 2) Jeremy and I (and now the ...
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2011/12/biking-news.html
Yesterday evening, Nathaniel and I went to the grocery store. We bought four gallons of milk. Don't they look cozy on the bakfiets bench (right by Nat cozy in his carseat)?
http://monstersonabike.blogspot.com/2011/12/baby-and-milk.html