A long day at a great vantage point

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Geo: 46.4676, 10.3781

Since Bormio was the finish point for today's Giro stage, and (perhaps more of a factor) the road up to the Stelvio closed at midnight, we decided to watch the stage from the finish line area.

A little walking-around-doing-recon told us that there was a pretty decent view from the top of the vents for the underground parking garage. They were about 4' high, which meant we could sit and see the finish line.

A quick trip back to the hotel to get the stuff we'd need, and we went back to claim our spot about 10:30 am.

The boys didn't come through that point for their first lap of the town until about 2:30 pm, and the actual finish wouldn't be until 5-ish.

But it was a beautiful day, with beautiful mountains all around us. And I'd borrowed an umbrella from the hotel, to help keep the sun from frying me to a crisp.

Dejo managed to get quite a lot of his blogging/note-taking done (he's keeping a running account of how our travels have gone, though I don't know that he's planning on making them public -- just reminding ourselves in the future, of the finer details of this adventure).

I got quite a lot of sitting done.

Thanks to our vantage point though, we were also able to keep an eye on the race progress on the Jumbotron set up across the road.

That was pretty much our day -- no major details to convey.

A quick nap prior to dinner (I needed to close my eyes -- they were stinging from so much sun), and then down for a delicious dinner, despite the mis-translated menu.

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Photos

Beautiful place to watch the race....
...uncomfortable place to sit for 7 hours.