Today held an important new first for me…traversing an international border on a bike! Pulling up to the guards on my bike in spandex gave me more of a thrill than it should have but that was a blast and, no, I wasn’t carrying any firewood. We had to climb many miles of uphill to [...]
Archive for August, 2005
Customs by bike!
Posted in Play, Sport, Travel on August 25, 2005 | 2 Comments »
It took our surgeons three hours…
Posted in Sport, Travel on August 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
…to remove the smile from his face. Bill and I just returned fgrom our off-day activity. The 10 mile hill to a lake. Cameron lake. Well we were a bit disappointed as we climbed the hill on our trusty Titanium steeds because after the first 5 miles it seemed that we started to go down [...]
Many glaciers
Posted in Play, Sport, Travel on August 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Our first day of the actual backroads trip started at 8am outside the Grouse Mountain Lodge. There was a table set up with all kinds of food and a couple of vans with our bikes and trip leaders. Our two trip leaders and the 9 participants are all great, which is a relief (see Tim [...]
Give me the gun, Lazlo…
Posted in Travel on August 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Cahill wrote an essay regarding travel (what else) where he provided a set of travel rules. This set of rules is something that I’ve taken to heart to avoid bad travel situations where you end up across the campfire from someone saying “Lazlo, give me the gun.” This trip is interesting in that I [...]
The Earth Moves
Posted in Travel on August 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
We made it to grouse mountain lodge at about 10:30pm…a couple hours late due to train issues. There was a nice guy standing right where we got off the train with a sign with our name on it! Woo! he drove us to the hotel and gave a quoite detailed restaurant inventory on the way. [...]
Trains rock
Posted in Travel on August 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, first class train travel does not suck. Bill and Michele have a room, I have a roomette-which means it is two seats facing each other with a door. The seats fold flat to form a bed and there is also a bunk that folds down. This thing books. I turned on the gps and [...]
Empire Builder
Posted in Travel on August 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
So, here I am sitting here in the Empire Builder first class lounge in St Paul waiting for said train. Late, natch. Anyway, this is the beginning of our active vacation to Glacier national park.
Puppy Break!!!!
Posted in Play on August 5, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Those of you who know me may be concerned that I’m posting something about dogs, but I’ll just say that nobody human can resist a puppy. Take a Puppy Break!
Woohoo! It isn't us anymore!
Posted in Travel on August 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Text msg your Coke!
Posted in Eat/Drink, Travel on August 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, now THIS is cool. You walk up to a coke machine and have no change? No bills? No problem. You have your phone, of course. So send a properly formatted text message to the address on the Coke machine to get your beverage! You can SMS for taxi’s, radio station contests, COKE, and all [...]
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- Still raining and NO GREEN KAYA FOR MY TOAST!!! 1 week ago
- Heading to my *favorite* airport in the world!!!! 2 weeks ago
- Yawn 2 weeks ago
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