Category: Europe

Let it be said…

Let it be said that I am very, very lucky. Not too many people get the opportunity to go on a month-long vacation with their best friend in the world. Not only that but the preparations for the vacation are going well and are not rushed. In fact, we’re leaving a day early and staging […]

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Minor (painful) Bump in the Road

The WI River “Solstice Float” was a hoot; we already have tentative plans to do it again next year. The un-glaciated area of Southwest WI made me dream of the green mountains that we will be experiencing in less than a week…yes, less than a week. Monday turned out to be quite an interesting day […]

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The good kind of problem

Heading out on vacation is great, but it’s bittersweet because at this time I’m in the best cycling shape I’ve been in over the past two years. I’d love to spend a lot of time riding this: Ben’s New Ride but instead we’ll have to settle for this:  and this: and probably this: This is […]

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Packing – It’s Tricky Busines

I am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea that we will be roaming around Europe in two weeks. My fellow teachers and I received news last night that has made me even more excited to get out of Wisconsin for a while (thank-you S.W.). I now have packing on my mind… Given […]

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What were we thinking?

So it’s begun to set in that shortly we’ll be leaving on our epic, month-long “vacation of a lifetime.” No, that’s not what we’re calling it or expecting from it, but I think those words do characterize it fairly. We both know that we are lucky to be doing it at all, since this was […]

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