Category: Biking

I Wished I’d Learned Spanish

I was designing a new kitchen: creating a 4-color geometric pattern floor,  an asymetrical table, and facing the chaos of my clutter plus having to move out of the kitchen.  But with months to prepare I have time to learn Spanish because we’re going to bicycle in the hilltop towns in the south of Spain. …

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Day off in Merano

(Yesterday we climbed a pass . . . Passo di Giovo or Jauffenpasse, 2095 meters.  Today we just couldn’t get motivated. Testing for stiff knees, feeling winded using the hotel stairs, we knew we wouldn’t be making the early train. Too bad, they trained up the valley we came down last year from Switzerland. Instead…

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The Mystery Trip

Show up in Paris on the appointed date. Bring 2 weeks worth of clothes and bike gear. You will go cycling to — where? — no one knows until you arrive.  Packing, missing the dogs in advance, wondering where we will end up, I prepare for the surprise itinerary. Photos are posted on julieyoumans.smugmug.com  …

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