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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