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  • Missoula, MT

    We landed at Powell campground Friday night. We didn’t expect cell service up there – and campgrounds are first-come, so we devised a simple plan where Bob would go to the furthest campground first, then…

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  • Idaho

    We passed into Idaho yesterday, and stayed the night at Hell’s Gate campground in Lewiston. Today we followed the Clearwater River into Kooskia where we are waiting for the camp hosts to show up so…

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  • Walla Walla, Washington

    We’re 4 days and 410 miles in. The wind out of the west – and being near sea level – have gotten us off to a good start. Bob and I are camping at the…

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  • Days 1&2: Oregon

    After a few days with the Johnsons (thanks again Chark!), we drove out to the coast. We didn’t know if our camp site had ocean access, so we stopped in Seaside for photos: turns out…

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  • Greetings from Keizer, Oregon

    We drove into Oregon on Tuesday, and have been staying with our friends Cheryl and Mark – who have been amazing hosts that make very good pizza. We’re mostly doing last minute errands, picking up…

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  • We’re off!

    We’re on our way to the west coast! Thanks to Brandon and everyone at Burk’s Tavern for the amazing fundraiser/send-off party. It was a blast, and wonderful to catch up with old friends and make…

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  • Taking a summer off

    In just 8 days I’ll pause my employment at Canonical to attempt something I’ve been wanting to do for years: ride my bike across a continent. I’ve done a few long distance/multi day rides in…

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  • Ubuntu Server now has a 64K Page Size Installer for ARM64

    While we’ve shipped a 64k page size kernel for a while now, starting with 22.04.4, we now provide an arm64+largemem installer image option that installs it by default: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm This removes one more step from…

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  • BikeMS 2022

    Help me raise $ for the National MS Society! This year the 2 day even it back, and I’m planning to do the 103/83 mile combo, so throw some cash in would ya? Trying to…

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  • Bike MS Colorado 2021

    For the 4th consecutive year (wow, really?!), I’ll be riding to raise money for MS research. If you’re able, please support me by donating at https://do.nr/lk75y. This year will no doubt be weird as they…

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