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  • Biking the Danube – Part 5

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      It never gets easier, you just go faster – Greg Lemond Ardagger Stift to Weissenkirchen  -51.25 Miles Our luck has run out.  The monsoons have arrived. We woke up this AM to a very rainy and gloomy day.  Nothing… Read More ›

  • Biking the Danube – Part 4

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    It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels,               -Heinz Stucke Linz to Ardagger Stift  -39 miles Today the big concern was weather.  Mike’s weather app was not very optimistic about the day at all.  It was… Read More ›

  • Biking the Danube – Part 3

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     People don’t take trips. Trips take people.    – John Steinbeck   Saint Agatha  to Linz    – 40 miles Mike set the alarm for 7:00 and we went from there.  We had to pack and then put our suitcases in the… Read More ›

  • Biking the Danube – Part 2

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    Don’t push the river, it flows by itself.  – Fritz Perls Passau to St. Agatha    -25.5 miles  (before the hotel shuttle) Mike is not excited about the bikes we have.  They are 21-speed, but heavy.  He has started calling them… Read More ›

  • Biking the Danube – Part 1

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    Passau, Germany No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.   – Lewis Carroll I don’t feel bad at all about giving dreadful explanations!  Our planned day and ½ in Passau was shortened to one day after our… Read More ›

  • Biking the Danube – The story behind the story

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    The Journey, not the arrival, matters.  –TS Elliot I can’t remember when I first heard about the Danube Cycle Path, but what I do remember is thinking, “This is something I will do someday!” and henceforth it was on my… Read More ›

  • The Beginning Of The End

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    Wow – I had planned on writing a lot more about my time in the Caymans, but with so many visitors and other distractions, I found it hard to find the time.  I’m posting some of my favorite pictures in… Read More ›

  • The Blue Dragon Trail

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    The Blue Iguana (aka Grand Cayman Iguana) is unique to the Cayman Islands. I took this picture at the Queen Elizabeth Botanical Garden last year. They can reach up to 6 feet in length and live for 60+ years.  In… Read More ›

  • Down The Hatch – Literally

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    As long as Mike and I have been visiting the Cayman Islands, the one thing we never thought we’d do was take the Atlantis submarine tour.  I figured that, as a diver, I get to see (in a more interactive… Read More ›

  • Settling In

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    On Friday, while I was waiting for my ride back to the airport, I started pulling tubs out of the owner’s closet and digging out all the things I leave here for convenience -such as shampoo, soap, toothpaste and other… Read More ›