Month: April 2018
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De pain of de feet
I was stirred out of my dreams at 2 this morning by a throbbing in the joint of my big toe. It wasn’t an enormous amount of pain, but it was sufficient to make it difficult to get back to sleep. And, as I tossed and turned, there were definitely positions in which it was…
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Tour de Tohoku
Nana, my partner, has been egging me on for at least two years about this one. A charity event every September in Tohoku, with the proceeds to go to the reconstruction effort there. I’m not going to write a lot about it yet, but just make this post to consolidate some resources for future reference.…
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Fat Bloke on a Blog
Of course Paul J. Parsons, author of Fat Bloke on a Bike: An Unlikely Adventure, has a blog. I just finished Paul’s account of his eight-day adventure from his home in Weardale to Inverness, covering more than 500 miles, and wondered if he’d posted the photos from his trip anywhere. Unfortunately it seems those photos…
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The best of everything on Shimanami Kaido
The little planning I did before the ride paid off handsomely, and we enjoyed amazingly good weather and cherry blossoms in full bloom. The views — particularly the Seto Inland Sea from the bridges — were breathtaking, and we were simply too at peace on the road to stop and take enough photos. We arrived…