In the spring of 2013 we spent a month in Sicily. Beginning and ending in Palermo, we completed a counterclockwise tour, intermixing visits to its many famous highlights with excursions into the quiet, beautiful interior. A month might sound like a lot for a fairly small area, but it wasn’t. There is so much to see in Sicily … Continue reading "Around Sicily"
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We awoke at 4, quickly assembled ourselves and our equipment, and cycled away from the Hampton Inn to the PDX airport terminal a half mile away. The air was warm, dry and refreshing. By 4:45 I was in the process of disassembling bikes while Rachael checked us in for our 6:30 flight to Slovenia. Here’s … Continue reading "Ljubljana to Venice"
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I feel a bit silly about imagining that France might have become so Americanized that it wouldn’t seem much different. It is overwhelmingly foreign, in an unending variety of aspects. I had not anticipated how out of my element I would feel – the language is only one of many dimensions that makes me feel … Continue reading "Paris to Paris"
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