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I like bikes. I like coffee. I especially like biking to coffee, which is one of the things that drew me to moving to Portland, Oregon, many years ago. Sometimes I also like giving myself a big dumb project, like, say, biking to 100 different coffee shops. Did Portland even have 100 coffee shops within biking distance that were worth visiting? I didn’t check when I started, but it seemed plausible. So one sunny spring day following one of our notoriously gray and rainy winters, I decided to do it, posting a photo from each one on Instagram with the hashtag #biketobeans.

This was in 2023, and biking to 100 coffee shops appealed to me as a way of getting back in tou

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