Santa Cruz
6 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Road trip. Graduation. Amsterdam. Canada. Wedding. Graduation.
Try packing for that!
Santa Cruz to Rye Patch
7 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Easy driving from Santa Cruz to Rye Patch State Park on the Humboldt river.
Rural roads to the Spiral Jetty
8 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Long day to the Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. Sculptor died in his early 30s. Kick over a trail cairn for him sometime. Vagabonds in the camping spot. We found a better one.
Utah to Wyoming
9 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌫 14 °C
Great Salt Lake. Promentory Utah and the Golden Spike. Then on the road to Devil's Tower. Beam me up Scotty!
The Devil's Tower to the Badlands
10 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
Wet and rainy hiking before heading out to wet and rainy Sage Creek in the Badlands. Camper battery gave up the ghost. Picked up a new one at Cabela's in Rapid City along the way.
More Badlands
12 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Moved camp to near the Visitor's Center. Nice slippery hike through the eroded topography. Native American tacos for lunch. Archeological dig uncovered a precursor hippo to canines. Pretty cool.
Badlands to Duluth
13 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Long day to a Minnesota campground and on to John and Kim's. Nice time in Duluth. Out to Tavern on the Hill for dinner. Boys are growing up.
On to LaCrosse, On to Hampshire
17 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Nice few days relaxing at Eagle Crest. Fine food in West Salem. Picked up Grace and headed to Massachusetts where we met Sophie in the Hartford airport.
Graduation Day!
19 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
What a time celebrating Augie!
Nice few days in New England
20 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Nice time with Alison at the Bnb. Lots of good food and ice cream. Lunch with Kim, Susan, and Joan. A rush to the airport to make it back to LaCrosse. (never LSE again, always MSP!)
La Crosse, United States
27 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Llama time at Will and Beth's. We missed the shearing which was quite an endeavor, but it was nice hanging out anyway. As usual the food and company were great.
Sunset over the Mississippi.
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La Crosse to O'Hare
28 мая 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
All packed up. Bikes boxed and ready. Camper in storage. Ready to go! O'Hare to Heathrow to Schiphol.
The guys at Coolee Bicycles in Onalaska boxed up our bikes. Figuring out logistics for gettingЧитать далее
Amsterdam Intro
30 мая 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
We made it. Easy flight. Quick through customs. Harrie picked us up. We set up a home swap on Home Exchange with Harrie and Birgitt. It's right in the center of Amsterdam near the Anne Frank museum.Читать далее
Wannegem in the Flemish Ardennes
6 июня 2018 г., Бельгия ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
We packed up our bikes and took the train to Gent. From there we pedaled the 40 kilometers or so to a home we'd rented for a week in Wannegem Belgium. Our friends Manu and Katelijn secured the placeЧитать далее
Side trips to West Flanders
7 июня 2018 г., Бельгия ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
While relaxing in Wannegem has certainly been pleasant, Nancy and I felt the need to move. We took daily bike rides through the countryside and a couple of side trips to western Flanders.
A couple ofЧитать далее
Good friends, good food, and ice cream.
8 июня 2018 г., Бельгия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Good friends, good food, and ice cream!
What more to say?
Well, just a bit. At dinner the other night Manu was describing a novelist who had left the church as 'a failed priest' when a light wentЧитать далее
The Flemish Ardennes to Gent
10 июня 2018 г., Бельгия ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Nancy and I have returned to Gent for the weekend. We had coffee with Manu and Katelijn before cycling up the Schelde River into Gent/Gand/Ghent.
If you would like to experience cycling along a canalЧитать далее
Cycling Gent to Antwerp/IC to Amsterdam
11 июня 2018 г., Бельгия ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
We set off cycling from Ghent to Amsterdam at 8:30 this morning. Stopped for a bite at a canalside café and made it to Antwerp by 3:00pm. 76km is currently our record for a fully loaded ride. We wereЧитать далее
Amsterdam Arrival
12 июня 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
We arrived at our new digs, and what a nice place to have landed! Harry and Birgitt are happily ensconced in our house in Santa Cruz thanks in large part to Augie's steadfast and thoughtfulЧитать далее
First Ride to the Polders
13 июня 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Our first ride! A 50 kilometer loop to the polders south of the city. It took us about 20 minutes to thread our way through the city throngs to find some solitude and nature. We made our way throughЧитать далее
First Ride Nord
15 июня 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Our first ride north. Everyone kept telling us to ride north from Amsterdam to quickly get to the agrarian settings, canals, and little villages. Boy were they steering us right. One kilometer northЧитать далее
Loop to Naarden
19 июня 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Nancy and I rode a nice 60k loop to the southeast of the city today. We wound our way through the polders to Naarden, an old fortress city. The city was on of three that we passed through thatЧитать далее
We Settle in and Augie Arrives
23 июня 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We made it to Quaker Meeting last Sunday. A quiet affair with eight in attendance. Most were Nederlanders, one was from Ohio via San Francisco. This was quite different from Meeting in Brussels whereЧитать далее
One Fun Morning...
25 июня 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We heard the weather was changing from cold and gray to sunny and warm so we hit the road. Augie rode my bike and I got a spin on Harrie's city bike. We rode north through the area above AmsterdamЧитать далее
A Following Wife & Son in Big City Tour
26 июня 2018 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
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