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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.
My laptop along with my digital camera will allow me to send pictures as well as journals back home.


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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


I personally want to be in this picture.  If you have ever been to Rockport, Massachusetts, there is a smaller version of this that gets painted (on canvas a zillion times each year.


Dinner entertainment in a town prior to Oslo.