Tag: #travel

  • Bastille day: the end of the Tour

    Tl;Dr: headed home after a great trip. Arriving in Tolouse was a rather involved affair. Chaz and I caught a train after finishing 62 miles,  a tight fit on the bicycle car. The train station.was out first clue that we were in a big city – very full of people. We rode into the central…

  • Day 5: Flats on the flats

    Tl;Dr: To keep recovery day exciting, have more flats! Slightly less early start in Sette, but that didn’t keep me from flatting 20 min into the ride. Damn TPU tubes. Switched the front to butyl, and pushed a bit to catch up. Very flat ride today – basically bike paths, either Gravel or Paved. Mostly…

  • Walla Walla with Merry Bikers

    Just spent 3 days in the lovely spring of Walla Walla riding bikes with the Merry Bikers. So much fun to be out rolling around. Walla walla was verdant – dogwoods and everything in urgent bloom. The wheat fields were overflowing waves of green. The river ran through it. And everybody seemed very nice, polite…

  • 4 Corners 2025

    TL;Dr: SW Utah is awesome, as always. Petroglyphs & Pictographs. Puebloan architecture. Amazing geography and great friends. Just wanna see the pics? Here you go. We have a group of friends to go places – Hawaii, New Orleans, now the 4 Corners area of the Colorado Plateau – Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. One…