We spent the last 3 days cycling and - after the weather took a turn for the worse - riding the train from Malaga to Seville. We hadn't really planned to travel much in Spain, but we've been adopting the "as long as we're here" attitude of the itinerary-free traveler and trying to ignore how we're being whacked by the dollar->euro exchange rate. Seville sounded very cool, so off we went. We didn't do too much training in Colorado for this trip (OK, none) so the hilly terrain between Malaga and Seville has jumpstarted our bicycle conditioning. The country here could [View Full Entry]

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Malaga Spain has been a wonderful surprise, much much more than the tourist ghetto we'd been expecting. This ancient city, palpably Roman but actually occupied much earlier by the Phoenicians, has shattered our stereotype of the shallow Costa Del Sol resort town. It's actually a decent-sized city, and getting from the airport into town was more of a challenge than we'd expected, even having perused Google sat photos beforehand. (For the record, there ARE sufficient connections across the riverside natural preserve area that cyclists don't need to take the heinous Autovia bridges in [View Full Entry]

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A long delayed update... I won't try and catch up on all our travels since I originally signed up for this blog site. The stories from our wandering across the US by VW van, the two months in New Zealand, the trips to SW Utah and Iceland, and the cruising by sailboat in Maine and the Bahamas will have to be related in person - or you can at least get the visual story from the photo page at my website, http://web.mac.com/steve_hoge . Now Kate and I are embarking on a somewhat more ambitious, long term trip with our bicycles, beginning [View Full Entry]

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Overstayed my rental by a couple of days, but finally got the place cleared out, cleaned up and packed into the van. [View Full Entry]

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