Category: Wanderings

June 3, 2026 The 2 Line across Lake Washington is finally real.
December 7, 2025 Crazy Pho Cajun: A Fusion Stop Near the Federal Way Station
June 6, 2025 Mountlake Terrace, Pizza, and Art
June 5, 2025 Seattle Explorations & A Guide to Double Talls
May 10, 2025 Link Light Rail opens in Redmond
August 30, 2024 Unbelievable Luck: Recovering A Lost Wallet From The Bus
August 28, 2024 Trying to Save Redmond from Its Auto-Obsessed Past – Exploring the 152nd Street and Overlake Area Projects: A Vision for Redmond’s Future
February 28, 2024 Riese & Muller Load 75 – Speed Fluctuations Issue & Resolution
November 16, 2023 Later Week and The End of My Pittsburgh Adventure
August 22, 2023 A Week in Pittsburgh Begins!
August 8, 2023 Beginning The Pittsburgh Adventure!
July 26, 2023 Mission: Record Recon in Seattle “Metro”
July 10, 2023 A VLOG Trio – Eastside Bakfiets Bijeenkomst – From Bellevue to Mercer Island to Seattle – Grub @ Burgermaster & Enjoying Spring District!
July 3, 2023 Bike Life. Riding into Seattle via the 520 Trail to pick up some secondary batteries for my R&M.
July 3, 2023 Mission: Record Recon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 28, 2023 Train Life, Bike Life! Portland & Richland trip is done, back to Seattle!
June 21, 2023 Bike Life. Gravel + Sand + Muck + Tarmac + More in Richland.
June 20, 2023 Bike + Train Life. Boarding the Empire Builder, with PDX Orange, for Pasco 4 Gravel Rides!
June 18, 2023 Bike Life. Combining “New Bike Day” with “New Glasses Day”!
March 26, 2023 Bike Life. Train Life. Redmond to Seattle by bike, Seattle to Portland by Train.
March 21, 2023 Bike Life. Testing out the new Insta360 with a tour through Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington.
January 30, 2023 Riese & Müller Load 75 Electric Cargo Bike Day 2 – “Reload”
December 28, 2022 Adventures with My Riese and Müller Load 75 Electric Cargo Bike
December 5, 2022 Chat GPT Has Some Answers for Transit Riders
May 16, 2022 King County Metro (KC Metro) System Maps as of 2022
May 15, 2022 Everett Transit Maps as of 2022
April 25, 2022 Everett’s Transit Shed
September 22, 2021 Details on Seattle “Bike Culture”
July 21, 2021 East Link Light Rail Extension to Bellevue & Redmond
July 19, 2021 LINK Light Rail Flyover Videos (for 2024 Routes)
July 14, 2021 Bike Collection & Gear: All-City Macho Man Disc, AKA “Pop Rocket”
December 3, 2019 Conference @ SEATAC Trips
October 5, 2019 Sunday Transiting Sunset Hill to Greenwood to Downtown Seattle and Around
October 18, 2018 Wednesdays Videos & Photos
October 17, 2018 Ballard, Sound Transit Sounder, and Recovery Day
October 16, 2018 Cap n’ Hominy, Bike, LINK, NOLA Bowl, Walkin’, Biking, Green River Trail, Interurban Trail, Sound Transit Sounder
September 10, 2018 Another Departure
June 23, 2018 Sounder Bike n’ Back to Ballard
May 21, 2018 A Video in Video Trip to Golden Gardens
May 17, 2018 Deadpool 2 Transit Adventure
May 14, 2018 The Seattle Head Tax #WTF?
May 2, 2018 Carpinteria and Santa Barbara
April 30, 2018 California Coastal Carpinteria Trip
April 28, 2018 Empire Builder Onboard
April 28, 2018 Homeward Bound Empire Builder
April 22, 2018 Thoughts & an Empire Builder Trip to Chicago
January 12, 2018 Amtrak Cascades Derailment and Resuming Promised Service Levels
January 11, 2018 Kind Words for Zack and Jim
January 8, 2018 Thoughts on Logistics for a Set of Business Meetings
January 6, 2018 That Transit Supporter Split
December 26, 2017 A Summary of Current US Passenger Rail Plans
December 24, 2017 A Slim Hope for Future US Passenger Rail Service
December 23, 2017 Post Wreck Thoughts on 501, PTC, US Liability, and America’s Failing Transportation
December 21, 2017 The Story on Amtrak Cascades Train 501 Derailment
November 16, 2017 Funny, The 2 Lanes Are Still There in the Plans, But Somebody Says They Aren’t… *Mynorthwest* Nonsense.
October 19, 2017 Don’t Let the City Council Defund the Seattle Central City Connector!
October 18, 2017 Upcoming Sounder Sleuth Roundtrip to Lakewood
October 8, 2017 Ballard Light Rail!
August 3, 2017 Back to Ballard. Win!
July 31, 2017 Why I’m a “Transit Sleuth”
June 7, 2017 How Much Would You Pay Portland – Seattle?
April 16, 2017 A Few Surlac Photo Memories
April 15, 2017 Decisions: Bike Up & Rocket Pop
April 5, 2017 Going All Kinds of All-City
April 4, 2017 Bike Theft & Building a Replacement
January 25, 2017 Discover Redmond’s Future
December 19, 2016 Living Subserviently to the Automobile
December 14, 2016 Urban Seattle Blogs – Rollcall
November 28, 2016 Ranting about Bellevue, Washington
November 26, 2016 Redmond Routes 545, 542, 248, and 221 (Seattle, Greenlake, Kirkland, and Eastgate)
October 11, 2016 Back to Seattle
April 20, 2016 Hop Fastpass, Getting to the Party
March 28, 2016 A Beautiful Ride into Portland and Tactical Urbanism Surprises
December 19, 2015 This is Not Rocket Science, It’s How to Get Around!
December 13, 2015 Transit Header Images
December 12, 2015 An Excellent Animation of Shoup
November 25, 2015 Just Stats from November 9th – November 25th & Commute Notes
November 24, 2015 Vantucky Suffers Vantucky Traffic, but So Does Portland, Maybe Provide a Fix?
November 21, 2015 Portland Transportation Political Contemplations
October 29, 2015 Union Pacific Bicycle Re-routing
October 26, 2015 Orange Line Ridership
September 24, 2015 The First Bike Rides in Kraków – Part II – Lunch Time Mission
September 22, 2015 The First Bike Rides in Kraków – Part I – Good Morning!
September 20, 2015 Observations of Krakow
September 13, 2015 Krakow – The First Week
June 3, 2015 Sad, But Good news Maybe?
September 23, 2014 Answering the Call… Bikeway on 3rd Ave
September 18, 2014 Portland’s PMLR Project, Where I’m Moving (One of These Days)…
September 16, 2014 A Cascading Seat Post Collision and The Green Line
September 15, 2014 A New Day of Transit Sleuthing
August 19, 2014 Today Marks a Very Decisive Day For Me…
April 7, 2014 Meetings, Starting the Day and Trimet Bus #4
March 9, 2014 Just Daily Portland Trips
December 9, 2013 Episode 6: “Introducing Thanks @ The Streetcar Mobile Music Fest!”
November 27, 2013 Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, What Was First?
September 22, 2013 A West Side Re-Exploration of Orenco Station & Neighborhood
September 13, 2013 Transit Sleuth TV : Episode 1 “Transit Meet n’ How to Carry Wine & Gelato”
September 3, 2013 Trip Cancelled, But Only Momentarily!
July 21, 2013 Springwater Trail Mischeif
June 1, 2013 Astoria
May 7, 2013 Joining Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Velo Cult and Night Time Wild Ride Race vs. Bus #75 & Bus #4…
May 3, 2013 After the Pacific Surfliner – Adventures in Los Angeles via Metro Gold Line
February 13, 2013 A Short Video Tour of Seattle Transit in Action
January 19, 2013 In Denver, Finding Amtrak…
January 3, 2013 A Trip to Washington Square With The Good People
December 30, 2012 2012 in review – The Infographic Summary
December 23, 2012 A Grand Lodge, A Long Transit Ride, A Great Weekend
December 21, 2012 Is TriMet Failing? Could Transit Improve in Portland? Let me know!
November 28, 2012 The Side Door
November 28, 2012 Middle of the Week Commuting
November 27, 2012 Boston, Portland’s Sister City?
November 14, 2012 Arbor Lodge, A Transit Romance
November 8, 2012 Transit Sleuth Weekly Picture (011) – Portland Streetcar at OMSI Stop
November 6, 2012 San Francisco Trip in Photos, A Little MUNI, PCC and Trolley Buses
October 17, 2012 Back in the Photography Game – 7D Action
October 14, 2012 A Round About San Francisco
September 29, 2012 The Best Commute is The Faux Commute
September 26, 2012 Transit Meetup in Portland (Oregon)
September 12, 2012 A Few Commutes :: Seattle to Bellevue :: Day #1
August 13, 2012 The Ride Home
July 11, 2012 A Wednesday Day Off
June 17, 2012 Musicians in the NYC Subway
February 5, 2012 I’m Moving, New Home Base: Portland, Secondary San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver BC
February 1, 2012 Putting My Geek & My Transit Together
October 22, 2011 Ballard to Bellevue to Redmond to Seattle to Ballard, Done!
September 4, 2011 Cafe Fiore, Route #17 and #48, and a Long Narrative!
May 24, 2011 Wow, Glad I Moved Out of Jacksonville, Florida
May 6, 2011 ALT.NET Day #2 Transit
February 21, 2011 Lunch Grub and a Wondering Trip
February 21, 2011 Transit Beer, Transit Bloggers & Bites
February 16, 2011 Transit Beer Seattle – 2011
February 13, 2011 Transit Beer on February 26th
February 12, 2011 Rolling On Northgate
February 7, 2011 Amtrak For The Win!
January 18, 2011 Reviewing Seattle’s Neighborhoods, Ballard Area
January 9, 2011 Reviewing Seattle’s Neighborhoods, Madison Park Area
July 30, 2010 Another Way Home
July 16, 2010 A Smack In the Face
July 14, 2010 I Felt Spontaneous
May 23, 2010 Walk, Ride, Around About Seattle, A Bit of Caffé Vita and Fremont
May 18, 2010 The Comparison So Far: TriMet vs. Metro/Sound Transit
May 16, 2010 Ah, Return of the Transit Sleuth
April 4, 2010 Sunday Streetcar Ride
March 31, 2010 Wow, Really? 34 Miles Per Gallon Would be Cool
March 2, 2010 Oregon Orders More Talgos! About time!
February 15, 2010 Hotel MAX, Amtrak Cascades, Sound Transit Light Rail…
January 29, 2010 Added a Few Favorites From 09’
January 24, 2010 The Tranquility of a Portland Morning Bus Ride
January 24, 2010 TriMet, Bus Funding, Intercity Rail, and Other Tidbits
December 20, 2009 Disruptive Technology, High Speed Rail
December 14, 2009 LA, Detroit going LRT
December 9, 2009 Portland to Centralia to Portland, A Quick Round About
December 4, 2009 Finalized, Transit Meetup, Come One, Come All…
December 3, 2009 Wifi on Amtrak Cascades
November 29, 2009 Alright, Transit Meetup Time
November 26, 2009 Rainy Portland Thanksgiving Day
November 24, 2009 Sarah Mirk Besmirks the CRC
November 20, 2009 Green Line Take 2 – Rolling
November 19, 2009 Finally Moved, Still No Car, and Many Fold Transit Increase
November 15, 2009 Last Weekend on the #9
November 13, 2009 Spontaneity @ Floyd’s Coffee
November 10, 2009 Taking a Survey
November 6, 2009 Transit Meetup (Beer?)
November 4, 2009 Warren Buffett Buying BNSF?
October 31, 2009 More Bus Service Reductions
October 30, 2009 Car-free Confusion
October 23, 2009 Officially Carfree
October 21, 2009 Flights, Thief River Falls, and Minneapolis
October 19, 2009 Officially Going Car Free?
October 18, 2009 Amtrak Inconsistencies
October 18, 2009 Here Comes S.L.U.T. #2 in Seattle
October 18, 2009 No More Buses, Portland Urban Life
October 14, 2009 Rocking Transit Websites (…and the bad ones too)
October 13, 2009 Day #12 Back to LA & Balboa
October 13, 2009 Day #10 & #11 Urban Phoenix
October 12, 2009 September Ridership Report w/ New Green Line
October 8, 2009 More Talking in Phoenix
October 8, 2009 People Talking in Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and Gilbert
October 4, 2009 Day #7, #8, and #9 Phoenix Burb’s, Wedding, and Brazilian Food
October 2, 2009 Moving In Portland
October 2, 2009 More Phoenix…
October 1, 2009 Phoenix Transit Exploration #fail and #success
September 30, 2009 Day 5 – Flanged Wheel Jumping & Phoenix
September 29, 2009 Day 3 The Beach Life & Day 4 Into the Breach
September 27, 2009 Day 1 & 2 – Coast Starlight Departing Portland and Rolling South
September 20, 2009 Los Angeles, Orange County, and Phoenix Itinerary
September 20, 2009 Green Line Videos Collection
September 19, 2009 Phoenix's Ongoing Transit Blogosphere
September 17, 2009 Clackamas Green Line
September 15, 2009 Dynamic Congestion Based BRT?
September 14, 2009 Holy Bujeezus a Fare Inspector on the Bus!
September 13, 2009 The Green Line Arrives in Portland
September 11, 2009 Saturday Schedule
September 11, 2009 Transit Chairs, Stops, Green Line, and Wanderlust
September 7, 2009 Green Line Thoughts & Ridership Estimates
September 3, 2009 The Rattling New Buses, Take a Queue from the Type 4’s
August 27, 2009 C-tran Skips, MAX Yellow Line Rocks, C-tran Catches
August 26, 2009 Final BART Agreement Passed by 80%
August 23, 2009 Sound Transit Making Progress
August 23, 2009 I Walked A Long Way…
August 21, 2009 Cool Videos by punkrawker4783
August 13, 2009 Fare Stories, Why I Hated Fareless Square
August 12, 2009 Freeloaders Unwanted, Please, Go Away, K Thx Bye
August 11, 2009 Oh Dear, The Traffic is Horrible
August 11, 2009 Transit & Passenger Rail News Bits
August 10, 2009 How Good is Your Transit’s Website?
August 10, 2009 Slamming Transit Ridership
August 10, 2009 A Lead Up To Better Transit Ridership
August 5, 2009 Low Cost Transit Floods City With Crime
August 3, 2009 How Best to Improve Transit in Portland, Bus Studies
August 2, 2009 Transit To Kraków
August 2, 2009 Speed Kills? I Call BS!
August 1, 2009 Transit 101 and Transit Futures
July 31, 2009 Sound Link Light Rail in Seattle
July 30, 2009 I Need Add Nothing, Bill O’ Reilly vs. Amsterdam
July 29, 2009 106 Degree Buses and Urban Core Activity
July 29, 2009 More Talgos In The USA!?!?!?!?
July 24, 2009 Light Rail Service Cancelled Completely, Bus Services to Expand x10 Over Current
July 23, 2009 Commute Interview #007 – Tyler Stricka
July 22, 2009 Cincinnati Streetcar Comes to Visit Portland Streetcar
July 16, 2009 Sound Transit Link Light Rail Trip
July 12, 2009 Sound Transit Link Light Rail Adventure
July 8, 2009 Green Line Preview Ride on Mall
July 7, 2009 Upcoming Transit News, Streetcar Price Increase, and Maybe Bike Bits
July 6, 2009 Bicycles & My 2 Cents
July 4, 2009 Light Rail Advantages
July 3, 2009 10:07pm Portland Night, Recollections of a Busy Day
July 2, 2009 NEWS FLASH – Colorado Railcar Lives!
June 30, 2009 Should Bicyclists Pay a Road Tax? Measured and Tallied
June 29, 2009 Transit Beer… Becomes Transit Meetup.
June 27, 2009 Pot Rider's Bus #9, Domestic Dispute Blue Line MAX…
June 26, 2009 Streetcar Advantages (Not Specifically Portland’s Streetcar)
June 25, 2009 Argument of Portland’s Direction (Re: Response to Al M)
June 23, 2009 Temporary Transit Mall, and Now What?
June 21, 2009 Probably Right Again
June 20, 2009 Joseph Rose Stabbing Into Transit Again
June 19, 2009 Light Rail Systems
June 17, 2009 Light Rail Schedule
June 13, 2009 X-System 3 Transfer Transit Adventure
June 12, 2009 Upcoming CAC Meeting I am Planning to Attend
June 10, 2009 TriMet’s Portland Bus Mall
June 6, 2009 New Urbanism, Old Urbanism, Traditional Neighborhoods
June 5, 2009 Adventures in Transit, Errands
June 4, 2009 Your Total TriMet Cost
June 4, 2009 WES Fail Take 2
June 1, 2009 Some Things to Know About Intercity Transportation
May 31, 2009 Luggage, Luggage, and Stuff, Using Seats for Butts
May 27, 2009 Wow, Portland Kicking Seattle’s Ass might be a Problem?
May 27, 2009 New York says this is why "Portland Kicks Your Cities A@#!"
May 23, 2009 Open Mall Day!!
May 23, 2009 New Buses and WES
May 21, 2009 I Have More to Say About This and The New Buses
May 15, 2009 Commute Interview #006 – Sasha Gollish
May 14, 2009 WES Isn't the Country's Only DMU Problem Child
May 13, 2009 $15.61 Cost Per Rider
May 13, 2009 Mall Expansion, Green Line, & Bitching
May 10, 2009 Shortchanged, WES Stalls Again, The T Driver t-bones Riders in Boston
May 10, 2009 Unlinked Passenger Trips Per Capita (2006)
May 9, 2009 National Train Day Tripping
May 5, 2009 National Train Day
May 1, 2009 My Thinking Place
April 26, 2009 Commute Interview #005 – Mark Coleman
April 23, 2009 Commute Interview #004 – Tony Arranaga
April 21, 2009 While We Argue Roads and Bridges
April 20, 2009 Commute Interview #003 – Kiisu
April 18, 2009 How Do We Get MAX LRVs Now?
April 17, 2009 High Speed Rail from Portland to Seattle, San Francisco to Los Angeles, …etcetera, etcetera…
April 16, 2009 Commute Interview #002 – Bryan Stearns
April 15, 2009 Market's Up
April 14, 2009 DART, Hitting a Bulls Eye
April 13, 2009 Streetcar & Bikeway Meetings
April 12, 2009 Commute Interview #001 – Aaron B. Hockley
April 11, 2009 New Transit Sleuth Logo!
April 8, 2009 MAX Green Line Running On The Mall
April 7, 2009 Conversations, A Really Short Transit Story
April 4, 2009 Logo, Interviews, Oh the Transit Influx!
April 2, 2009 Westside Express Service Photography Run
April 2, 2009 New Transit, Transportation, and Gettin' Around Blog Series
April 1, 2009 12,300 Jobs Mean What? TriMet gets FTA Approval for Milwaukee Light Rail
April 1, 2009 Gresham Rox, Ok Not Really…
March 29, 2009 TriMet is Run By Pull Politics, DUH!
March 28, 2009 MAX Photo, Transit Beer, and other Bits
March 28, 2009 #12 Transit Beer w/ #9, #19, the Streetcar & More!!!
March 25, 2009 Final Call for Saturday Transit Meetup (aka Transit Beer)
March 25, 2009 Amtrak, What Do We Get for $137,200,000.00 Dollars?
March 24, 2009 The Catastrophe of Wal-Mart or Interstates or Zoning
March 22, 2009 Images From the WES Commuting Voyage #1 (and commentary)
March 21, 2009 Transit Violence
March 20, 2009 Friday Finally, End Analysis