Category: news

Embarrassing

Most of you know my evening commute includes a bus ride from San Jose to Santa Cruz. Outside is chilly, but the bus is warm, so I remove my gloves and hat when I board. As we approach my stop, I zip up and don my hat and gloves.

The other day, the bus lights were off as I reached into my bag for the hat. I felt something suitably elastic and hat-like, pulled it from the bag and onto my head. And that’s when I noticed the leg holes in the hat. Because it wasn’t my hat — it was my underwear.

Oops. I think that counts as my most embarrassing moment of the month. How about you?

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National Bike Summit 2010 roundup

The 2010 edition of the National Bike Summit and the League of American Bicyclists annual meeting kicked off this morning in Washington DC. Much of the news has focused on Google enabling bicycle directions on Google Maps, but the main purpose of the Bike Summit is to organize, lobby politicians, and make LAB policy decisions.

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