This is dedicated to a few awesome peeps that have sent me little bits of rad things in the email/postal box.
♥gracias all!

++++ Santa Cruz, CA
Alejandro sent me this shot from his hot weather roamings in Sunny Santa Cruz. I’m overdue for a little weekend trip there +catch up with my brother. What’s up SC

++++ Sonoma, CA
This video is SUPER. Have any of you done this?! I’m into it. Anyone wanna go to a picnic with me?! I bring the cheese, you bring the wine+the pump.
Thanks to Natalie for the tip.

++++ Sacramento, CA
Many thanks to sweetheart Lorena from Sacramento’s fashionable blog: Sac Cycle Chic for sending me a pin to add to my bikey international collection on disintegrating jean jacket =)

++++ San Diego, CA

A very well written piece about bicycles and where we are headed. Thanks for the mention about the blog I collaborate with 3 other bicycle women (Change Your Life. Ride a Bike!) and Esteban’s observations about oil and our progress as citizens of this world.
Read it here: Pedaling through the Transnational Public Screen Esteban del Rio / University of San Diego

++++ Seattle, WA
Butter Bill goes to Seattle and he better had his taste of the coffee up there in that pike+pine lands of the north.



++++ Hong Kong
All images part of P H Yang’s post and CNN iReport: Over 900 Ride For Climate Change
So cool! I love that lady in the blue cap. Awesome!

++++ Berlin ,DE
And this is pretty awesome.
JLF has found my secret German life.
Comes at no surprise riding bikes, bloggin and having a coffee shop, what else!?

image from somewhere in the interwebs -JLF

Thanks to my colleague Yuki, for sharing these classic two clips.
I can totally see him going for the retro-lights bike – it would be a huge hit for him to take around the Mission for the upcoming long summer nights.

Could not resist having the Frenchie pose for a photo in front of the colorful (already!) mural on Fell & Scott street. I first learned about it via Pagelands finest, the calitexican – then I read all the details here: Mural in progress via BikeNOPA
This made me smile. I’m not sure I would have paid much attention to what was there before, as that area, personally, is highly stressful. I’m pretty slow as is, so there are a myriad of cyclists passing me very fast when I ride past this corner, and the traffic I just keep a very close eye to. It is a plate full of chaotic stress and it is nice to see the progress of a happy mural *ponytail* included.
♥I liked that the most.

♥Thanks so much to Sarah in NY, for sending these over.
I’m so happy to share them, so much fun and full of girl-power awesomeness. Can we have these smoothie incentives, often, nation-wide please?! 😀

Sarah says:
“Wanted to share some photos from Whole Living magazine’s Bike to Work Day event today in NYC along the Hudson River Park bike path. We served up smoothies via a bike-powered blender and had lots of giveaways including two bikes – a Café 8 by Felt from Zen Bikes www.zenbikes.com and a Gazelle single speed from Gazelle gazellebicycles.us”

*Photo Credits: Emily Roemer

Whole Living magazine Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Postman pedals a bike-powered blender from Band of Bicycles
that served up smoothies for New Yorkers along the Hudson River Park bike path on National Bike to Work Day.

New York City bike commuters fill out raffle forms to win one of two bicycles at
Whole Living magazine’s Bike to Work Day event along the Hudson River Park bike path.

♥Thanks so much Erika for the sweet email and a *awesome* photo!!

-From Halifax, Nova Scotia-
“I bike to work over a bridge on my red vintage 1950s Torpado road bike, but today I stopped at another local cafe for a macchiato and took the attached photo.”

Long live caffeinated Torpados in Canada 😀

Welcome to the Vietnam series – guest posts from a fellow San Franciscan photog – the lovely Mai /fashionist/ during her travels in Asia. This post will close her beautiful series and I’d like to thank her for the collaboration, colorful photography and nice stories. ♥

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Hoi An, Vietnam /part three
Story, and photography by Mai

oi An is my favorite tourist friendly town in all of Vietnam. It’s a place I know how to easily orient myself and get around. I like riding my rental bike to the beach each day where I swim for hours. After I’m burnt and sandy I ride to the tailor to be fitted for custom made clothes. The local tailors promise that they can copy anything you bring in or have a picture of. I’m a little wary of the picture route, so I bring in clothes I want copies of. It helps that I know how to sew, I suggest looking closely at seams and if you have a lot of items to make, you might consider going to more than one tailor. The turn around time is usually 1.5 days.
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yclos (xiclos) in Hoi An are more regimented than in any other Vietnamese place I’ve been. They are all maintained, parked in the same downtown area and the drivers wear a uniform. r

hey have fantastic nuoc mia (fresh squeezed before your eyes sugar cane juice) found on almost every corner. I didn’t take any pictures of the fantastic cao lau and com ga (chicken rice) I had there, but since I’m not from this region of Vietnam – these renditions of the regional food was such a delight. I’m such a foodie/nerd that I wrote down the “address” so I could find the same street vendors when I come back in a few years’ time. Hoi An has almost convinced me that I should spend a month there every year for the rest of my life.

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