Stalwarts

A nice photo from Jonathan Maus of BikePortland, taken Wednesday afternoon at Bike Happy Hour.

A pleasant surprise was running into both Shaun Granton and Robert Burchett. 

Shaun is the founder and cheerleader of Urban Adventure League, a local effort promoting the joys of discovery by bicycle.

Robert was a longtime member of Magpie Messenger until that business closed down last year. He was also, for a time, my roommate at a strange, cool house in Northwest Portland about thirty years ago.

Jonathan’s caption is revealing, and a little amazing.

To think that I’ve hung in there long enough to be a holder of history. 

Anyway, it was really nice to run into these stalwarts and I hope we’ll bump into each other again soon.