Photos
Could you live on this for a year? The 71 or so pounds represent my bags, clothes, camping gear including tent, sleeping bag, mattress, personal hygiene stuff, and computer with related accessories. Fortunately I don't have to carry this on the bike, the tour company carries it for me. The bags (at the top of the picture) were hand made by Bruce Hartless at
Roanoke Seat Cover Shop.
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Piazzale Michelangelo at night. Florence, Italy Odyssey 2000 campsite 4/10/2000
Piazzle Michelangelo Overlooking Florence 4/9/2000
Self-portrait with Colosseum Rome 4/5/2000 Previously..........
I have been taking lots of pictures. Maybe enough to remind me in the
future of the places I've been. I'll include the one of me at the 11,000
ft summit after an all day climb. It was 4:30 in the afternoon and we
were 40 kilometers from camp. It would be dark in 1 hour and 45 minutes.
I thought we had no chance of making it but we did. (Larry and I)
(somewhere in Central America 1/28/2000) They flew from Quebec to Paris...... France...Mont St. Michel From France to England........ Moving right along and over several countries for now, here are some pictures from England Wales and Ireland from June
A little bit of New England in old England. (I'm from Massachusetts so this picture is for me!)
Stonehenge Just after the summer solstice
Lighthouse Wales (next picture too.)
(Back to England for a minute.) In Bath a considerable amount of Royalty lived there in the 1700s and they had sort of a taxi service. Apparently there were people who for a fee would carry you from place to place in a specially built chair. These were usually strong Irish men. I actually saw one of the chairs in an old hotel there on exhibit. When you needed the service you merely yelled Chair-Ho. Over the years the practice faded away but the term Chair-Ho took on a new meaning and a new sound. It is the origination of Cherio.
I'm
sending you a picture of an entrance way into a nobleman's house in
Bath. If you will pay attention to the iron work you will see the places
in the top of the arch where tar pots were hung that were lit to
illuminate the night so one could find the way home. Also on each side
were metal cone shaped things to stick the tar torch into to snuff it
out.
Some Irish sheep. Pictures for Caitlin...Randal's granddaughter Norway..more pictures
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